I would like to take a minute to share some book news. The audio version of Something For Your Money is now available on Audible and Amazon. That completes the platform trifecta, more or less: the book is now available in print (hardcover and paperback), ebook (more platforms than I can mention), and audio, which […]
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book, informed informalityLas Vegas celebrated a birthday last week—its 120th, to be precise. That’s a nice, round, biblical number, so it is an occasion for some reflection on the last 12 decades of Las Vegas. Befitting a town inexorably linked with gambling, that history has had many unexpected turns. Las Vegas as a city was a creation
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informed informality, life in vegasAs promised, my latest book, Something for Your Money: A History of Las Vegas Casinos, was published earlier this month. II would like to take a minute to explain the title. I am open to anything when it comes to book titles. It’s been so long I forget why I settled on Suburban Xanadu for
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book, informed informalityI have been writing about casino history for a long time—my entire professional career. In recent years, my pace has slowed down a bit as I have been focusing on my ombuds work, which is why I haven’t published anything since my last book, At the Sands. That is going to change in January, when
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