Scott Dickensheets
Scott Dickensheets
Scott edits Las Vegas CityLife and is the editor of CityLife Books, an imprint of Stephens Press. He has also written extensively for his Facebook notes page, and contributed to Esquire, Playboy and other publications. He lives in Henderson, Nevada, with his wife, three sons, granddaughter, two dogs and a cat named D. Claud. He reads as much as he can, which isn’t nearly enough.
Some favorite books:
- The Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer
- Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany
- When the Kissing Had to Stop by John Leonard
- Air Guitar by Dave Hickey
- The parts of Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow that he’s actually read.
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Geoff Schumacher
Geoff Schumacher
Geoff is the publisher of the Ames (Iowa) Tribune. He previously spent 23 years in the newspaper game in Las Vegas. He has written two books, Howard Hughes: Power, Paranoia & Palace Intrigue and Sun, Sin & Suburbia: An Essential History of Modern Las Vegas. A revised and expanded trade paperback edition of the latter will be released in October 2012. He lives in Ames, Iowa, with his wife and younger daughter. The older one is in college in Reno. He reads like a madman but could read more if he wasn’t dinking around with other media-type stuff all the time.
Some favorite authors:
- Thoreau
- HemingwayFitzgeraldSteinbeck
- Nelson Algren
- George Orwell
- John Fante
- Richard Yates
- Harlan Ellison
- John D. MacDonald
- Michael Moorcock
- Jim Harrison
- Richard Russo
- Michael Chabon
- Dave Eggers
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- Alberto Manguel
- Nicholas Basbanes
- Geoff Dyer
- Jess Walter
