I am a public affairs columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, author of "Sun, Sin & Suburbia: An Essential History of Modern Las Vegas" and "Howard Hughes: Power, Paranoia & Palace Intrigue," and editor of CityLife Books, an imprint of Stephens Press.
My more than 20 years of professional work as a newspaper reporter, editor, columnist and author have been influenced by several mentors in the field, as well as some of the great writers of the 20th century, including Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Nelson Algren, John Steinbeck, A.J. Liebling and Tom Wolfe.
I'm more than halfway through "Inherent Vice," Thomas Pynchon's new novel, and I'm really liking it. It's funny, and the writing is brilliant. It's essentially a detective novel set in Los Angeles, an homage to Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett but with a strong dose of "The Big Lebowski" thrown into the mix. The story is set in 1970, and the detective in question is a ...
The verdict: I thoroughly enjoyed rereading Ernest Hemingway's "A Moveable Feast," which I think is a great book, but the "restored edition" just published doesn't add much of anything to the experience.The changes to the original book are relatively minor, and the additions don't bring much of value. The whole exercise, performed by Hemingway's grandson, seems to be a poor ...
I don't reread books very often. There are so many good and important ones to read that I find it hard to justify rereading something, even if it's really great. I seem to make one exception to this rule, though, and that is Ernest Hemingway's "A Moveable Feast." A "restored edition" of the book has just been published, prompting me to take up the book yet again and perhaps ...
