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Another chance: That might be the purest product of Las Vegas. The idea is that you can be a new you with one turn of a card, an off-the-hook Strip weekend, or just a fresh address in the neon. Reinvention is one of the core mythologies of this place, which makes it the perfect theme for this
milestone tenth volume in the Las Vegas Writes anthology series.
The stories, essays, and — for the first time — poetry in A Change Is Gonna Come explore this rich concept in ways large and small. In one poem, cranes tower above the changing cityscape in a tableau of civic vigor; in another, Frank Lloyd Wright contemplates pancakes in a casino diner; a third offers a cop’s-eye view of the city’s dark side.
Among the nonfiction, you’ll meet a Las Vegas singer who continually readapts in the face of catastrophic health challenges, a writer who sheds his old life, and a public figure considered an icon of reinvention is revealed not to have changed at all.
On the fiction front, a husband finds himself baffled, angry, and terrified by his wife’s new diet; a woman copes with her husband’s strange new self; and a suburban resident wages a war of words with her HOA.
As these writings vividly show, no place embodies the wild possibilities of change quite like Las Vegas.
Las Vegas Writes is an annual anthology showcasing the city’s literary talent. Contributors: Jennifer Battisti, Steve Bornfeld, Harry R. Fagel, Dayvid Figler, Lonn M. Friend, A.D. Hopkins, Veronica Klash, Oksana Marafioti, Mike Prevatt, Elizabeth Quiñones-Zaldaña, Vogue Robinson, Erin Ryan, Steve Sebelius, and Amanda Skenandore
Click to read A Change Is Gonna Come Table of Contents, excerpt, and about the contributors.
Las Vegas Writes is a program of Nevada Humanities, published by Huntington Press, with support from the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, and part of the Las Vegas Book Festival. Las Vegas Writes anthology is an annual collection of writings by local authors focused on a theme connected to Las Vegas. For more information visit: https://www.nevadahumanities.org/las-vegas-writes
About The Editor(s)
| SCOTT DICKENSHEETS is the deputy editor of Desert Companion, the magazine of Nevada Public Radio. Before that, he edited Las Vegas CityLife and the Las Vegas Weekly, served as managing editor of Las Vegas Life, and worked in a number of positions at the Las Vegas Sun, from assistant features editor to columnist. Prior to that, he worked as a publicist and magazine editor for the Allied Arts Council. Dickensheets has edited, co-edited, or contributed to six previous volumes of the Las Vegas Writes series, and was an assistant editor of Nevada: 150 Years in the Silver State.
GEOFF SCHUMACHER is the senior director of content for the Mob Museum, responsible for exhibits, artifacts, and public programs. He earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Nevada, Reno, and his master’s degree in history from Arizona State University. He started his twenty-five-year career in journalism at the Las Vegas Sun, where he was a reporter, editorial writer, and city editor. He was the editor of Las Vegas CityLife and founded and edited the Las Vegas Mercury. He served as director of community publications for the Las Vegas Review-Journal and also wrote a weekly public affairs column for the Review-Journal. He culminated his newspaper career by serving as publisher of the Ames (Iowa) Tribune. Schumacher is the author of two books, Sun, Sin & Suburbia: A History of Modern Las Vegas and Howard Hughes: Power, Paranoia & Palace Intrigue. He served as editor of Nevada: 150 Years in the Silver State, the official book commemorating the state’s sesquicentennial, and several editions of the Las Vegas Writes anthology series. |
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