Claire Vaye Watkins

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So many worthy books, but for most of us there is so little time to read them all. Those words are usually spoken each year when the list-making season…

In her hotly anticipated debut novel, onetime Nevada author Claire Vaye Watkins imagines the consequences of extreme drought on the West and its people

Remember libraries? Those places where you borrow (remember?) books? Believe it or not, libraries didn’t shrivel up and blow away after the Internet came along; actually, libraries are striving to change with the times, constantly asking what their role is in a world where the reference desk is just a browser tab away. The American Library Association is holding its annual convention in Las Vegas June 26-July 1 to ponder that very question.

Claire Vaye Watkins is a child of Death Valley, but was educated in Pahrump and Reno. She sets her stories in Nevada or California. And her first…

Claire Vaye Watkins is a child of Death Valley, but was educated in Pahrump and Reno. She sets her stories in Nevada or California. And her first…

Like books? Oh, do you ever! What a coincidence! Desert Companion will be part of the Vegas Valley Book Festival, Nov. 5-6 at the historic Fifth Street School downtown.