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What if gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson took one more journey to Las Vegas in search of the American dream? What if the ghost of Ted Binion haunted his former home? What if Andre Agassi were caught up in a futuristic courtroom drama? These questions and more are explored by writers tackling the challenge of creating a fictional story around a Las Vegas icon. From a historical saga of Las Vegas’Â early days to a madcap clone war along a sci-fi Strip, eight local writers experiment with a range of styles and genres in this seventh volume of the Vegas Valley Book Festival’s Las Vegas Writes Project.
Las Vegas Writes is an annual anthology showcasing the community’s literary talent.
Contributors to this edition: Scott Dickensheets, C.J. Mosher, Drew Cohen, Jessie Humphries, Helen H. Moore, Sonya Padgett, Erica Vital-Lazare, and Doug Elfman. Edited by Geoff Schumacher.
Click to read an excerpt from Anarchy of Memories.
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)
| 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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