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Lead Photo Mountain man: Talking with Yucca author John D’Agata

Scott Dickensheets | Wed, Feb 3, 2010 (5 p.m.)

The Weekly talks to John D’Agata about his book, About a Mountain.

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Lead Photo Love and squalor: Farewell, J.D. Salinger

Joe Brown, Kristen Peterson | Wed, Feb 3, 2010 (4:30 p.m.)

Weekly writers say goodbye to a literary great.

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Lead Photo Been there, destroyed that

Smith Galtney | Wed, Jan 27, 2010 (5:30 p.m.)

The primary impact from Preston’s latest thriller is, unfortunately, déjà vu

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Lead Photo Hardly a game changer: Juicy account of ’08 presidential race seems better suited for the screen

Chuck Twardy | Wed, Jan 20, 2010 (3:45 p.m.)

Game Change, poorly written in general, is full of fun, distracting revelations.

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Lead Photo Five random excerpts from ‘Gutshot Straight’ by Lou Berney*

“‘I’m not jealous,’ Lucy said. It was true. She was just stupid and pathetic.‘I’m just stupid and pathetic.’”

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Lead Photo Don’t tell Gore Vidal about Tera Patrick’s new book!

Scott Dickensheets | Wed, Dec 23, 2009 (2:34 p.m.)

Picture Glenn Beck with stars obscuring his nipples. Scary, right?

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Lead Photo Pirates, a kid genius and Screech. Oh my!

Rick Lax | Wed, Dec 23, 2009 (2:18 p.m.)

A few books the Weekly somehow skipped over in 2009.

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Lead Photo “One Model Nation”

J. Caleb Mozzocco | Wed, Dec 16, 2009 (4:25 p.m.)

Dandy Warhols frontman Courtney Taylor joins the very small group of musicians who have created their own comics—and the even smaller group who have managed to produce rather good ones.

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Lead Photo “Manual of Trickery and Deception” isn’t nearly as intriguing as its title suggests

Rick Lax | Wed, Dec 16, 2009 (4:18 p.m.)

In the 1950s, the CIA began a secret program under which stage magician John Mulholland was paid $3,000 to write an essay on how the agency could exploit conjurers’ tricks for covert purposes.

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Lead Photo Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong

N.P. Thompson | Tue, Dec 15, 2009 (5 p.m.)

Famed right-wing critic Terry Teachout has just published his first new book in five years, and while the author’s flame-throwing antics don’t take center-stage, they’re present here all the same.

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Lead Photo Our critics’ picks: The films, albums and books that defined a decade

Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Thu, Dec 10, 2009 (midnight)

"Eternal Sunshine," "Hail to the Thief," "House of Leaves" and much, much more.

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Lead Photo “Naked Lunch” at 50

Mark Dery | Wed, Dec 2, 2009 (3:55 p.m.)

Naked Lunch still delivers the gut-grabbing jolt of the autoerotic hangings that punctuate its pages.

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Lead Photo Derek Haas’ antihero Columbus is likable in spite of himself

S.T. VanAirsdale | Wed, Dec 2, 2009 (3:50 p.m.)

Columbus is just the latest factor in Haas’ master plan: to craft characters with a wretchedness so refined, so incorrigible and so sincere that it’s kind of impossible not to fall for them.

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Lead Photo Nabokov’s last, unfinished novel is finally published

Chuck Twardy | Tue, Nov 24, 2009 (6:20 p.m.)

For fans and scholars of Vladimir Nabokov, these ghostly fragments are a godsend.

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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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The rumble was a jungle
With a lineup screaming dance party extravaganza, Sunday night was one of the most successful crowds the Rumble has pulled.
The power of pop compels you
Armed with Jesus and hair gel the Altar Boyz are a boy band looking to save souls.
Jaguars love to rumble
February’s installment of the touring concert embraces Portland-based electro-indie duo Jaguar Love, along with local acts Kids Meets Cougar and Pan De Sal.

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Bramblin Man

For this, Andrew Pollard’s first solo menu at Noir Bar, he presents a twist on the classic Bramble. A gin-based cocktail made popular in 1980s London by Dick Bradsell, the ...
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