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NEW
CRAPS
AND THE SHOWGIRL: A personal memoir by former world-class
showgirl and Harolds Club-Reno casino dealer Barbara Riif Davis.
MURDER
MOST FOUL. Piercing
the Lion Heart, play-by-play
of the 1979 murder of Reno PD officer James Hoff /
from lawyers Andy Boles and Ron
Hutcherson.
Addiction
and Other Love Stories
A book of short stories by Laura
Newman
Brushstrokes
and Balladeers
Range Magazine editor/publisher CJ Hadley
"leaves out the expressive photography that has graced her
past productions and zeroes in on cowboy poetry and western art."
Susan
Skorupa / Reno Gazette-Journal / 11-20-2013
Back
to the Summit by Sen. Omer Rains
Portraits
of Change by Mary White Stewart
Carson
City horror/modern fantasy/crime novelist Kaine Andrews
Woken released
in April, 2013
Pipeline
pigs, oily vultures and flying swine
New
Greg Palast book brings the outrage home
Barbano by Barbano / Expanded from the 12-18-2011 Daily Sparks
Tribune
Loss
of Faith
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded
from the 10-16-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune
"Casino
Women" book hits nationwide
Larry
Evans:
The most interesting man in the world
ALSO: Newspapers and old newspapermen never
die
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 11-21-2010
Daily Sparks Tribune
Peggy
Drakulich Leon's second book: A
Theory of All Things
From The Permanent
Press — Peggy Leon's richly embroidered "Mother
Country," set in a fictionalized Ely, Nevada, during its
copper mining heyday.
Mrs.
Leon is the daughter of Silver State legend Steve
Drakulich.
The
art and photography of former Nevada radio personality Phil Harvey
Matt
O'Brien throws a party to celebrate his new book
Updated
5-8-2007
Hey,
everyone. My book, Beneath
the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas,
is back from the printer — yeah, I know, about
time — and we've scheduled a launch party. It will
be from 6 p.m.- 8 p.m. (PST) June 1 at the Arts Factory
in downtown Las Vegas. (The Wynn resort rejected our
repeated offers.)
I would like to invite all close friends and family
— actually, anyone who may vaguely recall my name
— to join me and everyone else who worked on this
book in celebration. Then we will head off into the
neon-lit night and gamble and drink our asses off. Seriously,
there's a lot going on that weekend: the First Friday
arts festival, the NBA playoffs, etc.
Those looking to save money can sleep on my couch, my
floor or stay with some of my friends. I'm also willing
to shuttle people from and to the airport and around
town. (Editor's note: You may e-mail
Matt for hotel recommendations.)
I'd love to have everyone out here for a good time,
but there's no obligation. I also hope to have a book
signing in Atlanta this summer.
If you all have any questions, let me know.
Matt O'Brien
702-241-5335
thesewersofparis@yahoo.com
4-29-2007
His space at MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/beneaththeneon
From
the jacket blurb
Notes from the Vegas Underground
The
catacombs of ancient Rome served as houses of
worship for Jews and Christians. The sewers
of Paris yielded gold, jewels, and relics of
the revolution. A slave trade thrived in underground
chambers along Portland, Oregon's, waterfront.
And thousands of street people lived in the
subway tunnels of New York City.
What secrets do the Las Vegas storm drains keep?
What discoveries wait in the dark? What's beneath
the neon?
Armed with a flashlight, tape recorder, and
expandable baton, CityLife
writer-editor Matthew O'Brien explored the Las
Vegas flood-control system for more than four
years.
Beneath
the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las
Vegas
chronicles O'Brien's adventures in subterranean
Vegas. He follows the footsteps of a psycho
killer. He parties with naked crackheads. He
learns how to make meth, that art is most beautiful
where it's least expected, and that there are
no pots of gold under the neon rainbow.
Is
he printing pictures of the naked crackheads?
Skin should help sales, especially when flogged
by O'Brien's expandable baton.
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Mapmaker,
mapmaker: Veteran Comstock publishers produce insiders map of
the Silver State
The Nevada
Adventure Map leads vacationers around the state,
hitting both hot spots and lesser-known places.
Stark
raving
Ryan
Stark has just unleashed Slander House, an indie book label
set out to document the works of talented Reno writers.
Journals
fill the desert with words
A
handful of literary journals and books devoted to local and regional
literary arts entice readers and give writers of poetry, short
stories and essays places to get their words out. Some also offer
space to photographers and artists. The journals provide important
clues to a community or region's personality, say those who produce
them.
Sparks
turns 100 and Las Vegas steps on the Rail City's line
New books honor and recall their history
Editor's
note: Sparks was incorporated in 1905, Las Vegas in 1911,
but Mayor Oscar Goodman wanted a centennial on his watch,
so he decided to celebrate the railroad's auction of land
in what became downtown Gomorrah South. The above article
from the 5-10-2005 Reno Kazoo-Journal fails to note the
distinction. Because Vegas is Vegas, several "centennial
books" have been published, while Sparks had to print
its own. See the oldest photo of Sparks published in conjunction
with the centennial right
here.
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KUDO CITY. Las Vegas writer Chris
Haraway wins third place money in a short story contest. Congratulations
and nice work. Click
here to read the not at all flowery "Helmut and Marigold".
NEW
— YOU'RE NOT PARANOID IF THEY'RE REALLY UP THERE.
Brazilian
Publisher Editora Aleph
announces release of a Portuguese translation of Reno author Jerry
E. Smith's "Armas Eletromagnéticas" (Electromagnetic
Weapons), an in-depth investigation into U.S. military's controversial
High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP).
Washoe
Seasons of Life: A Native American Story
When
a picture book couldn't be found, they wrote their own
Reno Gazette-Journal 4-29-2004
The
Strawberry Mountain War
by Reno writer David P. Fisher
Celesta
Lowe, former writer for R-J, dies at 87
Longtime Nevadan's magazine articles became
basis for 'Death Valley Days' episodes
Former
Nevada State Treasurer Patricia Cafferata's history of "The
Goldfield Hotel: Gem of the Desert"
reviewed by Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist John L. Smith
Las
Vegas crime and punishment author Cathy Scott's profile of Nevada
writer Brian Rouff
"The
Red Scare in Nevada, 1919-1920" by Ted DeCorte of Las
Vegas
From The
Permanent Press — Peggy Leon's richly embroidered "Mother
Country," set in a fictionalized Ely, Nevada, during its
copper mining heyday. Mrs. Leon is the daughter of Silver State
legend Steve Drakulich.
Books
by the Bard of Las Vegas Blvd., John L. Smith
Excerpts
from John L. Smith's "Of Rats and Men: Oscar Goodman's Life
from Mob Mouthpiece to Mayor of Las Vegas"
Mob
Mouthpiece
Mr.
Mayor
John
L. Smith reviews three Nevada books
Cathy
Scott, author of "Murder of a
Mafia Daughter" and books on the Ted Binion and Tupac Shakur
homicides.
John L.
Smith — The
only justice (Mafia Daughter) Susan Berman may know is Cathy Scott's
book.
Las
Vegas Mercury 2003 Book Festival Edition
Reno
News & Review 2003 Short Fiction Edition
Inside
the Glitter — the hard lives of hotel-casino workers,
photos & interviews by Kit
Miller
The
Money & the Power — The
Making of Las Vegas and its hold on America, 1947-2002
by Sally Denton & Roger Morris
Nevada
— a gorgeous coffee table-size pictorial with essays by Jon
Christensen, photos by Deon & Trish Reynolds
Saints
In Babylon, a history of Mormons In southern Nevada
by Kenric F. Ward
This
Was Nevada, Vol. II — The Comstock Lode
by Phillip I. Earl
War
of the Aeronauts, A History of Ballooning in the Civil
War by Charles M. Evans
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