Back to Where You Once Belonged
Huntington Press (Verlag)
978-1-944877-07-1 (ISBN)
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This anthology looks at Las Vegas, a city of enduring public fascination, from a variety of nontraditional and culturally diverse perspectives; readers experience the "real Las Vegas" that exists beyond the tourist cliches.
The contributors themselves are diverse-in age (from 21 to post-retirement), gender, sexual orientation, and cultural background.
Some of the contributors are well-known to Las Vegas readers, including H. Lee Barnes, Michael Green, Dawn-Michelle Baude, Heather Lang, Stacy J. Willis, and Sarah Jane Woodall, and fans of those and other writers in the book will be interested in this book.
The styles of writing take full advantage of the freedoms inherent in the essay form, ranging from objective and learned to deeply personal, highly stylized, and surprisingly funny. But they're all unified by a deep engagement with the book's theme.
As the latest in a series of books - the Las Vegas Writes project - that's allied with the Vegas Valley Book Festival, Back to Where You Once Belonged arrives with a built-in awareness among literary Las Vegans, many of whom have other books in the series.
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 four previous volumes of the Las Vegas Writes series and was an assistant editor on Nevada: 150 Years in the Silver State. As the senior director of content for the Mob Museum in Las Vegas, Geoff Schumacher creates exhibits, acquires artifacts, develops educational programs, and serves as a historical resource for media outlets. Before joining the museum in 2014, Schumacher was a journalist for 25 years. He was a reporter and city editor for the Las Vegas Sun, editor of Las Vegas CityLife and the Las Vegas Mercury, and director of community publications and a columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. He culminated his newspaper career as publisher of the Ames (Iowa) Tribune. He is the author of Sun, Sin & Suburbia: The History of Modern Las Vegas and Howard Hughes: Power, Paranoia & Palace Intrigue. He edited Nevada: 150 Years in the Silver State and three editions of the Las Vegas Writes book series.
Introduction, by Scott Dickensheets
Essay 1, by Stacy J. Willis
Essay 2, by Michael Green
Essay 3, by Nicholas Russell
Essay 4, by Sarah Jane Woodall
Essay 5, by Noah Cicero
Essay 6, by Heather Lang
Essay 7, by Lee Barnes
Essay 8, by T.R. Witcher
Essay 9, by Dawn-Michelle Baud
Essay 10, by Dan Hernandez
Afterword, by Geoff Schumacher
| Erscheinungsdatum | 21.10.2017 |
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| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Las Vegas |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 191 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-944877-07-X / 194487707X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-944877-07-1 / 9781944877071 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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