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A Tour of Writing from the “Underbelly.” There's more to Reno's literary history than “City of Trembling Leaves!” Reno continues to be a mythical magnet for ‘outsider’ writers and characters & the misfits, outcasts, and seekers. Let your imagination roam as we travel Downtown streets encountered by traditional writers like Will James, Robert Laxalt, and Joanne Delongchamps, then walk the haunts of contemporary writers such as Bernie Schopen, Willy Vlautin, and Susan Palwick.
Selected Works:
New Writing
- Dane, Catherine. Bet Against the House. New York: Berkley Publishing, 1995.
- Hopkins, Ellen. Crank. New York: Simon Pulse, 2004.
- Hopkins, Ellen. Glass. Margaret McElderry, 2007.
- Palwick, Susan. The Necessary Beggar. New York: Tor Science Fiction, 2007.
- Robb, Amanda. Murder in Reno, Marie Claire magazine, December 1, 2006.
- Schopen, Bernie. The Big Silence. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1989, 1994.
- Vlautin, Willy. The Motel Life. New York: HarperCollins Publisher, 2006.
- Vlautin, Willy. Northline. New York: HarperCollins Publisher, 2008.
- Waters, Don. Desert Gothic. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2007.
Traditional Writing
- Amaral, Anthony. Will James: The Last Cowboy Legend. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1967, 1980.
- de Longchamps, Joanne. Torn By Light: Selected Poems. Edited by Shaun Griffin. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1993.
- Fisher, Vardis. City of Illusions. New York: Harper & Bros., 1941.
- Gay, Greer. The Case of the Well-dressed Corpse. New York: Pageant Press, 1953.
- Homes, Geoffrey. No Hands on the Clock. New York: Morrow, 1939.
- James, Will. Smoky: The Cow Horse. New York: Scribner's, 1926, 1954.
- Johnson, Latifa. Shelia Goes to Reno. New York: Vantage Press, 1952.
- Laxalt, Robert. The Basque Hotel. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1989.
- Laxalt, Robert. Child of the Holy Ghost. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1992.
- Laxalt, Robert. Sweet Promised Land, 50th Anniversary Edition. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2007.
- Liebling, A.J. Just Enough Liebling. New York: North Point Press, 2004.
- Luce, Clare Booth. The Women. New York: Dramatists Play Service Inc., 1937, 1966, 1995.
- Van Tilburg Clark, Walter. City of the Trembling Leaves. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1945, 1991.
- Van Tilburg Clark, Walter. Oxbow Incident. New York: Modern Library, 2004.
- Vanderbilt, Cornelius, Jr. Reno. New York: McMillan, 1929.
For an excellent scholarly analysis:
- Ronald, Ann. Reno: Myth, Mystique, or Madness in East of Eden, West of Zion Edited by Wilbur S. Shepperson. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1989.
…and for an extensive overview of Nevada writings:
- Glotfelty, Cheryll. Literary Nevada: Writings from the Silver State. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2008.
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