dostoyevsky – David G. Schwartz

Writing about gambling

gambling & culture • Dave • June 16, 2010 • dostoyevsky, gambling & culture, gambling & culture, lvbp, media

Based on a discussion in my Gambling and the Media class, I wrote a little essay about how gambling’s depicted in film and literature. Now it’s a Las Vegas Business Press column: Looking at how gambling is depicted in books, films, and television says a lot about how people perceive the pastime, but it often […]

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Crime and Litigation

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, in my estimation, might have been the best novelist of the 19th century. Sure, people in his novels have an unfortunate tendency to give chapter-long monologues on “the mission of Russia,” but from what I understand he got paid by the word. For much of his life his compulsive gambling kept him in