Retired Nevada State Trooper Steve Raabe’s latest book, Patrolling the Heart of the Silver State, is a collection of stories about patrolling, investigating and administering some of the most desolate and dangerous highways…
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A cozy fit: Jared Stanley’s new poetry book started in the stillness and sweetness of quarantining with his family
Jared Stanley’s latest book of poetry, So Tough, is really into shirts. “I don’t know; I love shirts,” he said. “Shirts are poems, you know? It’s about how it feels inside and…
Reno’s remarkable rise: Joyce Cox’s book documents how the Chamber of Commerce promoted a cow town into a national destination
Reno author Joyce Cox was a human version of Google decades before the internet existed. While working as a research librarian in California in the 1990s, Cox fielded phone calls from people…
Carrying on the lineage: Curtis Harnar, wanting young Paiutes to have access to their history, helped get his mother’s 1974 book republished
Nellie Shaw Harnar, a Northern Paiute woman who lived from 1905 to 1985, wrote a book titled Indians of Coo-Yu-Ee Pah (Pyramid Lake): The History of Pyramid Lake Indians in Nevada. It…
The gift of slow travel: Shaun Griffin’s new book traces the 1,200-mile bike trek of a father and two sons
For Shaun Griffin, a journey on bicycles with his two adult sons across the mountains and valleys of three Western states was an act of faith. Griffin, a Virginia City-based poet and…
Muddled messiah: ‘The Book of Clarence’ can’t decide whether it is serious or a comedy
LaKeith Stanfield stars as a would-be messiah in The Book of Clarence, a take on biblical themes that looks decent—but feels like a not-so-funny and inconsistent Life of Brian remake. Monty Python’s…
An ‘artifice’ of natural wonder: Peter Goin’s new of book of photos documents the evolution of Tahoe’s landscape
The undeveloped portions of Lake Tahoe may appear to be enclaves of pristine nature, as wild and unchanging as they were during the thousands of years when bands of the Washoe people…
Adventures in our own backyard: ‘Sierra Highway: U.S. 395 and El Camino Sierra in California and Nevada’
Author and photographer Stephen H. Provost’s Sierra Highway: U.S. 395 and El Camino Sierra in California and Nevada is the fourth volume in his growing Highways of the West series, historical travel guides to…