Live Through This

by Geoff Schumacher (Editor), Scott Dickensheets (Editor)

Overview

Las Vegas was built on millions of intimate unnatural disasters. Bad turns of the cards. Unlucky rolls of the dice. In both fiction and essays, this anthology extends the dynamic of unnatural disaster beyond the gambling parlors and into the streets, homes, and eccentric spaces of Las Vegas.

In the nonfiction section, you'll descend into a decades-old atomic bunker, given new relevance by international hostilities; follow a foster mom as she deals with the drug-addicted bio-mother of her children; and gauge the meaning of #VegasStrong through the lens of the video game Fallout: New Vegas.

The fiction is equally eclectic, taking in the Las Vegas of the past (Bugsy Siegel and Virginia Hill on the eve of the Flamingo's opening), the present (a journalist drifts into danger as he investigates an "accidental" disaster), and the future (an Ocean's 11-style sci-fi romp).

Together, these 11 pieces show some of the ways life in Las Vegas is shaped by things going haywire -- and by how we face failures and fiascos.

Las Vegas Writes is an annual anthology showcasing the city's literary talent. Contributors: Megan Edwards, Kim Foster, John Hay, Jarret Keene, Andrew Kiraly, C. Moon Reed, Lissa Townsend Rodgers, Jason Scavone, David Schwartz, F. Andrew Taylor, and Kristy Totten

Product Details

BN ID:	2940161969168
Publisher:	Huntington Press
Publication date:	09/04/2018
Series:	Vegas Writes , #9
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Geoff Schumacher is the senior director of content for the Mob Museum, responsible for exhibits, artifacts, and public programs. He earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Nevada, Reno, and his master’s degree in history from Arizona State University. He started his twenty-five-year career in journalism at the Las Vegas Sun, where he was a reporter, editorial writer, and city editor. He was the editor of Las Vegas CityLife and founded and edited the Las Vegas Mercury. He served as director of community publications for the Las Vegas Review-Journal and also wrote a weekly public affairs column for the Review-Journal. He culminated his newspaper career by serving as publisher of the Ames (Iowa) Tribune. Schumacher is the author of two books, Sun, Sin & Suburbia: A History of Modern Las Vegas and Howard Hughes: Power, Paranoia & Palace Intrigue. He served as editor of Nevada: 150 Years in the Silver State, the official book commemorating the state’s sesquicentennial, and several editions of the Las Vegas Writes anthology 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, co-edited, or contributed to six previous volumes of the Las Vegas Writes series, and was an assistant editor of Nevada: 150 Years in the Silver State.