Scott Dickensheets
Scott Dickensheets is a Las Vegas writer and editor whose trenchant observations about local culture have graced the pages of publications nationwide. He's currently serving as Newsletter Editor for City Cast Las Vegas, and is Desert Companion's 2024 Writer in Residence. You can follow him at @DickensheetsLV.
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Sociologist Isaac Ariail Reed discusses how he draws inspiration — and cultural insights — from Sin City's history and architecture -
This cultural critic sees Vegas as a door to a new theory of modernity
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Long before it was a symbol of ecological distress, Lake Mead was just where I acted like a fool -
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The Vegas-based poet on the power of poetry as communication -
Poet and UNLV professor Claudia Keelan talks grief, life as a poet, and how being present can make all the difference in the creative process
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When the going gets tough, the tough find respite in the familiar (but still write to their senators!) -
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The road trip in Elegy, Southwest takes us through climate change, grief, art, and the fragile state of a marriage
