CityLife Books

The wait is over! Learn what imaginary band name won the Crit band name contest and find out the lucky winner of drinks and dinner with author Andrew Kiraly.

Here are event details:

JULY 8th ~ 7pm
Book Launch Party
Artifice Bar
1025 First Street #A
Near Charleston Blvd. and Main Street

Crit featured on Association of Alternative Newsweeklies website!

As a former alt-weekly writer, editor and music critic, Andrew Kiraly drew on his many years of (often crazy) experience in everything from rock clubs to casino lounges. He’s highlighted today on the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies website as part of a summer series on books penned by current and former alt-weekly scribes. Read the full story here:

Former CityLife Editor and R-J staffer Geoff Schumacher recently posted a past interview with Vu Tran, one of our Restless City authors. Though Geoff and Vu have both since left Sin City for broader horizons and greater challenges, their conversation about writing, and the authors who have influenced Tran in his relatively young, but remarkable career, is well worth reading. It is obvious that we will be hearing much more about this Whiting Writers’ Award winner! For the complete interview, click here.

Preserving a sense of community

By Mark Smith

Parhump Valley Times

How do you maintain a village so it remains a village?

Had a good talk Saturday morning with Evan Blythin, who recently published Vanishing Village: The Struggle for Community in the New West CityLife Books, Las Vegas.

He was in town at the community library Saturday morning, chatting with interested residents and signing and selling his book.

Evan is a sculptor and musician who holds a doctorate from University of Colorado and retired after 30 years as a communications studies professor at University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

His book considers the plight of the small town that faces growing stress due to the anonymous urban life that looms over the horizon. In brief, where people in a small rural community know each other’s names and recognize the faces of their neighbors, the same cannot be said for those who live in, say, Summerlin or Centennial or Sunrise Manor.

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Richard Abowitz
Los Angeles Times ~ 2/28/10

“Despite getting frequent mentions in tourist guides and routinely topping out locals’ best-of polls, the Double Down Saloon is the Vegas institution that most appears to belong in another, cooler city than Las Vegas. With a scruffy pool table and a tiny stage, its character (and jukebox) is closer to New York’s late CBGB than an ultra lounge.

The décor reflects the owner, and few who know him will be surprised that P Moss has written a collection of short stories in his free time. With “Blue Vegas” in a new imprint from alternative weekly City Life, Moss is making his fiction debut at age 58…”

Read the full article here.

In the latest ‘Kats Report’, writer John Katsilometes, of the Las Vegas Sun, gave an advanced review of upcoming CityLife Books title, Blue Vegas, as well as some insight into the book’s enigmatic author, P Moss.

Read it here.