Getting Better All the Time: Las Vegas Writers Explore Progress - Tapa blanda

Produced in conjunction with the Vegas Valley Book Festival, this 2013 edition is the fifth collection in the series, with this year's contributions exploring the concept of "progress" in its broadest sense, from net positives -- downtown's rejuvenation; personal stories of emotional or spiritual growth -- to the flip-side of social dislocation and other dark portents highlighting the limits and risks of change and "modernisation". As a city that, from its very inception has consistently challenged convention, "Sin City" has always coined its own definition of progress. In these stories and essays by some of Las Vegas' finest writers, you will see how locals weave spectacle, risk, and reward into the narratives of civic, political, financial, and personal progress -- and at what price it comes.

A 40-year Southern Nevadan, Dickensheets is the deputy editor of Desert Companion magazine. Before that, he was editor ofLas Vegas CityLife, editor in chief of theLas Vegas Weekly, managing editor ofLas Vegas Lifemagazine, and held various positions at theLas Vegas Sun, including assistant city editor, assistant features editor and columnist. He's edited two previous anthologies of fiction and essays for the Las Vegas Writes project,Fade, Sag, CrumbleandWish You Were Here. His work has appeared inPlayboy,Esquire, and other magazines.