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Lead Photo E(vil)-Mail

Scott Dickensheets | Wed, Nov 18, 2009 (4:33 p.m.)

Feel free to e-mail this story to your friends. It would be ironic.

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Lead Photo Jeff VanderMeer: A fantasy writer you should know

Brian Francis Slattery | Wed, Nov 18, 2009 (2:11 p.m.)

Reading a fantasy novel is like waking up, unbidden, in the middle of a foreign country.

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Lead Photo Crocodile Elvis: A short story

Quentin R. Bufogle | Thu, Nov 12, 2009 (midnight)

Elvis drew a bead on the television set. Squeezed one off from his pearl-handled .44 and sent it straight to that big repair shop in the sky—vacuum tubes and all.

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Lead Photo Second chance: A snapshot from the Vegas Valley Book Festival

T.R. Witcher | Wed, Nov 11, 2009 (3:12 p.m.)

Vegas: “[T]oss a chip out on the table, you’re treated the same as anybody else. Nobody gives a damn where you come from. Where you’re going is all that counts."

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Lead Photo Raw. Honest. Great.

Steve Friedman | Wed, Nov 11, 2009 (2:34 p.m.)

Stephen Elliott’s lacerating, all-over-the-place memoir pulls no punches.

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Lead Photo Is poetry making a comeback?

Richard Abowitz | Thu, Nov 5, 2009 (midnight)

The lack of expectations has actually helped a long-ignored art form survive.

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Vegas Valley Book Festival at a glance

Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Thu, Nov 5, 2009 (midnight)

Everything you need to know... and then some.

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Lead Photo “Drunk” review

J. Caleb Mozzocco | Thu, Nov 5, 2009 (midnight)

Drinking may not help you write or draw better, but going to bars and getting blasted can certainly give you something to write and draw about.

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Lead Photo In praise of Poe

Edward Pettit | Thu, Nov 5, 2009 (midnight)

Hitchcock? Stephen King? CSI? Hard to imagine any of them not owing a huge debt to the legendary writer.

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Super compressed schedule of Vegas Valley Comic Book Festival

Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Thu, Nov 5, 2009 (midnight)

More comics than you can stomach!

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Lead Photo Rolling Stone? Please!

John Lombardi | Thu, Nov 5, 2009 (midnight)

Ramparts magazine did it better, and influenced an entire generation of subversive journalists.

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Lead Photo What are local writers working on?

Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Thu, Nov 5, 2009 (midnight)

Gratuitous plugs, new novels and more. Local writers are doing it all.

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Lead Photo All Cross, no stitch: A funny comedian’s unfunny book

Rick Lax | Wed, Nov 4, 2009 (1:14 p.m.)

Reading through David Cross’ I Drink for a Reason was kind of like watching a Bob Odenkirk movie: I spent the whole time thinking, Come on, man, you can do better than this.

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Works you may not read before you die, and what you’ll miss

Scott Dickensheets | Thu, Oct 29, 2009 (midnight)

You'll never guess who dies in Death of a Salesman!

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Lead Photo ‘Naked’ truth: Why ‘High Fidelity’ fans will hate Hornby’s latest

Smith Galtney | Wed, Oct 28, 2009 (3:51 p.m.)

Chick lit sucks. Rob would be ashamed.

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A&E

MMA fighters set to party after UFC 106
Kenny G and UFC all in the same weekend?
Lunch, served with style
Forget cafeteria food, these lunch trays up for bid carry more important things.
49 things to be thankful for
Colonic Elvis, invisible troops, CCSD teachers, the lag time between stopping mortgage payments and being evicted… the list goes on and on.

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Cocktail of the Week Nov 19, 2009
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The bar is open! Or rather, back open. Adjacent to Dos Caminos at Palazzo, itty bitty Fusion Mixology Bar has gotten itself some fresh new beats and mixology talent as ...
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