In The News: Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute
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Two days later this month might just answer this question: Is Las Vegas ready?
Not for professional football. Or the NHL.
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A highly praised and proudly off-beat literary magazine, where contributors have ranged from Nick Hornby and Anne Carson to Leslie Jamison and Daniel Handler, is changing ownership.
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Art comes out of chaos,” culture critic David L. Ulin — now a fellow at UNLV’s Black Mountain Institute — said at last year’s Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. “Culture comes out of chaos.” If so, we’re in for some culture-fat times, as the nation’s new political order appears to be a chaos engine: rewriting social norms, destabilizing old certainties and posing fundamental questions about — some would say challenges to — what it means to be an American.
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The Black Mountain Institute at UNLV just turned 10. The international literary center grants fellowships and degrees, holds readings and panels, and provides asylum to persecuted writers.
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You could evaluate the first decade of the Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute in terms of speakers who spoke, fellows who wrote and literary journals published.
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Violence has been part of human storytelling probably since the first human told the first story. Today, it remains a literary drawing card for readers of all genres.
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Writing a novel is an unavoidably solitary endeavor, and maybe that’s why so many novelists seem to enjoy talking with readers once their books have been published.
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UNLV's Black Mountain Institute is a home for both new and established writers to hone their craft.
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We’ve all heard stories about someone coming out of a brain injury with creative skills they had never had before. And we know that some of our most creative artists have suffered from mental illness.
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A literary pilgrimage here? No way. Too many books set in Vegas. Too grim. Too predictable.
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Las Vegas may not be filled with as many academics as Boston, Washington, D.C., or the Bay Area, but Southern Nevada has a growing literary community.
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Who owns the land?
That question has dominated the long and complicated history of the America West.