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Relative to “Desire, Knowledge, and Hope (with Smog),” a current exhibit on display at The Broad, Smog Check Thursdays features short sets of acoustic and spoken word performances.

Nevada Humanities has announced the book selections for its statewide 2020 Nevada Reads program. Nevada Reads is a statewide book club that invites Nevadans to read selected works of literature and then come together in their communities to share ideas and perceptions inspired by the books they have read.

From Horatio Alger and E.L. James to T. Boone Pickens and Charles Koch, books by and about the ultrawealthy reveal some of our darkest American fantasies.

Prof. Gabriel Bump’s “Everywhere You Don’t Belong” to be Adapted for TV Professor Gabriel Bump’s novel, Everywhere You Don’t Belong (Algonquin, 2020), is being adapted into a half-hour television series. Prof. Bump will be joining the Department of English and Comparative Literature faculty this summer as an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing. Everywhere You Don’t Belong was a New York Times Notable Book of 2020, and has won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for Fiction, the Heartland Booksellers Awa...