So... does it exist? Literature in Las Vegas? Lost Vegas? Sure....! You say, just saunter down the strip on a sunny day and watch the literature fly all over the sidewalk! No! Not that kind. What about seedy, smoky (well maybe not so anymore with the new no-smoking laws in place) seedy, smoky, dark ex-coffee joints where squeaky, reticent college students sweat out limp poetry readings... But where is the enthusiasm? Squashed by the sun? Or perhaps blown away with all the 'literature' blowing in the wind? How about the many books you find in the libraries here in town? "There are libraries in Las Vegas?!" You query... Yes! There are libraries.. only they are fast falling behind the new kid in town... people don't go to libraries to read books anymore. They go to use the computers and check out movies.... it's true.
So, the quest continues... I ask again... is there literature in Las Vegas? Are there bonafide writers.thinkers.poets who really care what is said and read? I believe there are folks. And soon, you might be able to see this for yourselves, for colleagues and I are on a mission to seek out these 'writers' and 'poets' and 'literary' types in Las Vegas and update what is taken for 'literature' here in the desert of the lost.. Perhaps we will find our literature and those who hunger and thirst for it will be sated... we will see...
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Well, is there?
Hey, I added a link to your page on my blog. Hope that's okay.
Joanne
I do wonder sometimes if there is literature in Las Vegas? Don't you? Maybe it is up to people like us, writers, bloggers, to bring it about....
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