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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<\/i> is one of the core mythologies of this place, which makes it the perfect theme for this
\nmilestone tenth volume in the Las Vegas Writes anthology series.<\/span><\/p>\n

The stories, essays, and \u2014 for the first time \u2014 poetry in A Change Is Gonna Come<\/i> 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\u2019s-eye view of the city\u2019s dark side.<\/span><\/p>\n

Among the nonfiction, you\u2019ll 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. <\/span><\/p>\n

On the fiction front, a husband finds himself baffled, angry, and terrified by his wife\u2019s new diet; a woman copes with her husband\u2019s strange new self; and a suburban resident wages a war of words with her HOA.<\/span><\/p>\n

As these writings vividly show, no place embodies the wild possibilities of change quite like Las Vegas.<\/span><\/p>\n

Las Vegas Writes is an annual anthology showcasing the city\u2019s literary talent. Contributors:\u00a0Jennifer Battisti, Steve Bornfeld, Harry R. Fagel, Dayvid Figler, Lonn M. Friend, A.D. Hopkins, Veronica Klash, Oksana Marafioti, Mike Prevatt, Elizabeth Qui\u00f1ones-Zalda\u00f1a, Vogue Robinson, Erin Ryan, Steve Sebelius, and Amanda Skenandore<\/span><\/p>\n

Click to read\u00a0A Change Is Gonna Come<\/u><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Table of Contents, excerpt, and about the contributors.<\/p>\n

Las Vegas Writes is a program of Nevada Humanities, published by Huntington Press, with support from the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District,\u00a0and part of the Las Vegas Book Festival. Las Vegas Writes anthology\u00a0is an annual collection of writings by local authors focused on a theme connected to Las Vegas.\u00a0 For more information visit:\u00a0https:\/\/www.nevadahumanities.org\/las-vegas-writes<\/a><\/p>\n

About The Editor(s)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
SCOTT DICKENSHEETS\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0is the deputy editor of Desert Companion<\/i>, the magazine of Nevada Public Radio. Before that, he edited\u00a0Las Vegas CityLife<\/i>\u00a0and the\u00a0Las Vegas Weekly<\/i>, served as managing editor of\u00a0Las Vegas Life<\/i>, and worked in a number of positions at the\u00a0Las Vegas Sun<\/i>, 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.<\/i><\/p>\n

GEOFF SCHUMACHER<\/strong>\u00a0is the senior director of content for the Mob Museum, responsible for exhibits, artifacts, and public programs. He earned his bachelor\u2019s degree in journalism from the University of Nevada, Reno, and his master\u2019s degree in history from Arizona State University. He started his twenty-five-year career in journalism at the\u00a0Las Vegas Sun<\/i>, where he was a reporter, editorial writer, and city editor. He was the editor of\u00a0Las Vegas CityLife<\/i>\u00a0and founded and edited the\u00a0Las Vegas Mercury<\/i>. He served as director of community publications for the\u00a0Las Vegas Review-Journal\u00a0<\/i>and also wrote a weekly public affairs column for the\u00a0Review-Journal<\/i>. He culminated his newspaper career by serving as publisher of the Ames\u00a0<\/i>(Iowa)\u00a0Tribune<\/i>. Schumacher is the author of two books,\u00a0Sun, Sin & Suburbia: A History of Modern Las Vegas<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Howard Hughes: Power, Paranoia & Palace Intrigue<\/i>. He served as editor of\u00a0Nevada: 150 Years in the Silver State<\/i>, the official book commemorating the state\u2019s sesquicentennial, and several editions of the Las Vegas Writes anthology series.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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