The #1 book in the country is
Just as I Am by Cicely Tyson, who died two days after its publication, at age 96. “In her spirited debut memoir,” our review said, “actor Tyson recalls her extraordinary life, as well as the racial and gender stereotyping, movie-business prejudice, and ill-behaved men that shaped her seven-decade career.” Several of her lauded performances originated in books, including her Oscar-nominated turn in 1972’s
Sounder, adapted from William H. Armstrong’s Newbery Medal winner, and her Emmy-winning starring role in
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, the 1974 TV movie adaptation of Ernest J. Gaines’s novel.
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By Ed Nawotka | Jan 29, 2021
When Drew Cohen and Scott Seeley opened the Writer’s Block in 2014, it was Las Vegas’s only independent bookstore. Today, it still is. It is also the only independent bookstore in southern Nevada and, along with Sundance Books and Music in Reno, one of only two independent bookstores in the state focused on selling new books.
“The growth of Las Vegas has really outpaced the book scene,” said Cohen, who noted that Las Vegas’s best-known used bookstore, the Amber Unicorn, closed at the beginning of January after nearly 40 years in business.
Cohen and Seeley came to Las Vegas from New York City, where Seeley had been cofounder and executive director of Brooklyn literary nonprofit 826NYC. The opening of the Writer’s Block was serendipitous: “[Author] Jennifer 8. Lee was working with [late Zappos CEO] Tony Hsieh and approached Scott to ask if he knew anyone who might want to come to open a bookstore in Las Vegas,” Cohen re
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