This is a big deal: UNLV-based international literary center Black Mountain Institute has assumed publication of The Believer (believermag.com). The award-winning arts and culture journal, formerly published by McSweeney’s, boasts a list of contributing writers so star-packed—Amy Sedaris and Daniel Handler, for starters—that it confers greater authorial dignity on Vegas just by moving into the neighborhood. Believer’s new editor, BMI executive director Joshua Wolf Shenk, intends to maintain the magazine’s “deeply indie” feel when it resumes publication in August. In the meantime, you can get a feel for Vegas’ new literary home team at the BMI/Believer co-produced American Dreams festival (festival.blackmountaininstitute.org), April 21-22, featuring Carrie Brownstein, Dave Eggers, Miranda July, Jim James, ZZ Packer and others.