Even in these days of high-tech literature delivery systems, there’s nothing like enjoying a book — or a book-related item ortwo — around the holidays. Here are some gifts that the book lover in your life will appreciate.
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A professor looks at Las Vegas’ status as a “stigma city” and how it got that way.
Sure, it’s about books. Lots and lots of books. But the Las Vegas Book Festival could just as well be named the Las Vegas Ideas Festival.
Sure, they’re lanterns rising into the nighttime sky. But for RiSE Festival participants, each lantern is a blank canvas that carries into the heavens messages, in the form of drawings or words, that express joy, pain, regret, gratitude, sorrow, hopeor any other emotion they need to feel, and share, in that moment.
The tribute comes from more than a dozen states and seven countries: 58 portraits, created in media and styles as wide-ranging as their points of origin by a diverse palette of artists, all of whom have volunteered their talent in service to the simple gift of remembrance.
It probably has a technical name, but let’s just call it the Four-Person Multilevel Headstand Monolith, which, after a few unsuccessful attempts, finally comes together as an impromptu tribute to the four young women who form its infrastructure.
The messages — plaintive, defiant, encouraging, empathetic — appear on a poster sent to Southern Nevadans by, the poster says, “the Pulse family and all of Orlando” during the weeks following the Oct. 1 Route 91 Harvest festival shooting.
They look like dyed fried eggs, or multicolored avocados cut in half, or artistic representations of cell drawings from grade-school science class.
The winner of a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant,” the co-directors of a writing program for rural Nevada teenagers and two National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” honorees are among the Black Mountain Institute’s 2018-19 class of fellows and writers-in-residence.
“Alexander Hamilton,” historian and author Ron Chernow’s biography of the Founding Father, was published in April 2004.