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A new book examines the highs and lows of The Downtown Project.
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Misunderstood and ruthlessly hunted, the wily coyote has nonetheless thrived in tandem with mankind
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Boxer Liston appears occasionally in new bio — but Vegas looms large.
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We want to say that Decemberlands, by local writer and occasional Desert Companion contributor Greg Blake Miller — a slim, highly readable volume of three short stories with holiday themes — would make a great stocking stuffer. But that would shortchange the book: By the time the recipient opens it on December 25, he or she will be pretty much holidayed-out. And it would be a shame to set aside a book that, really, isn’t about seasonal clichés.
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In her hotly anticipated debut novel, onetime Nevada author Claire Vaye Watkins imagines the consequences of extreme drought on the West and its people
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Hey Kris, It’s Brian B. The bookstore dude gave me your email. I was at your reading the other night.
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That morning, I took my father’s watch from the top of the dresser where my mother kept it, stuffed a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in my jacket pocket and ran away.
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“Calculating route. Turn left and then keep right. In 1.2 miles, turn left to North Green Valley Parkway.
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She remembered dancing in the desert. She remembered stars. It was a dream, but one that felt vivid and made her giddy, her head bubbly. She’d been light as wind, a part of the nightscape whispering over the hills.
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Vu Tran’s upcoming novel Dragonfish is set in the Vietnamese underworld of Las Vegas. Robert, an Oakland cop, can’t let go of Suzy, the mysterious Vietnamese wife who recently left him.