winslow’s eleven

Strip shell game!

It’s hard to believe, but one of the oldest gambling con games is alive and well in the shadow of the Las Vegas Strip. I snapped some pictures of a shell game in action on Monday between the Tropicana and Hooters. Technically that’s not the Strip, but it’s in the Strip tourist corridor, so the […]

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life in vegas

New Vegas guide out NOW!

If you haven’t read enough about Las Vegas, today is your day: I’ve posted my quick but (hopefully) useful travel guide to this site. It’s written under my pen name Will Winslow. Read this clip for the details: In addition to writing fine books and articles on gambling history, opinion, and current issues, Dr. Schwartz

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life in vegas, writing

Vaguest book title yet, and something coming soon

I think this is, indeed, the vaguest book title I’ve seen: Amazon.com: Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays: Books: Walter Pater Worse yet, there’s no review material–even a blurb from the publisher–to give you an inkling of what the book is about. Maybe I should call my next book “Words Arranged in a Coherent and

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writing