Imagine Vegas now if Brigham Young had gotten his way: Sinless City would be in the heart of his proposed Mormon state of Deseret. So says Michael J. Trinklein in Lost States: True Stories of Texlahoma, Transylvania and Other States That Never Made it (Quirk, $25), a fascinating roundup of such close calls.
The April 3 event at 11th Street Records will be themed around the beat poetry movement of the 1950s.
Vegas native and former English teacher Jen Castagno launched the Book Shelf in 2024, transforming a trailer into a cozy reading nook on wheels.
The Chicago-based Filipina transfemme writer stops in at the Writer’s Block on January 10.
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