Tuesday June 01, 2021 @ 12:00AM - Tuesday August 31, 2021 @ 12:00AM
Monday–Saturday, 10am–6pm Sundays, 11am–5pm *Coffee Shop closes at 4pm;
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the State of Nevada no longer require that fully-vaccinated individuals wear a mask in most indoor locations. If you are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, you may wear a mask in our store at your discretion.
ONLINE SHOPPING
Friday November 20, 2020 @ 12:00AM - Friday December 25, 2020 @ 12:00AM
The Writer’s Block continues to encourage distanced shopping through our online store. Our store is available, realtime and 24/7, through the search bar at the top of this page or by browing here.
Shipping is free on all *book* orders over $20; orders containing non-book items are billed shipping. All orders over $100 (no matter what they contain) are upgraded to free shipping. Curbside pickup is always free, and available daily.
BOURBON BOOK CLUB
Thursday June 24, 2021 | 6:00PM - 7:30PM
A BOOK DISCUSSION PAIRED WITH WHISKEY
For June, Bourbon Book Club attendees will discuss The Shining by Stephen King.
This book club will be held in person and capped at 15 participants. Face masks are optional for fully vaccinated individuals. Please register at the link below to secure your spot.
Jack Torrance’s new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. As the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he’ll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his writing. But as the harsh winter weather sets in, the idyllic location feels ever more remote . . . and more sinister. And the only one to notice the strange and terrible forces gathering around the Overlook is Danny Torrance, a uniquely gifted five-year-old.
The Shining is a classic of modern horror by one of its undisputed titans, Stephen King.
Attendees are expected to have read the book in advance.
Join us for a virtual discussion of Patricia Highsmith's gripping novel The Talented Mr. Ripleyand its star-studded 1999 film adaptation.
This book club will be hosted remotely on Zoom. Registration is required. Please see the link at the bottom of this page to sign up.
It’s here, in the first volume of Patricia Highsmith’s five-book Ripley series, that we are introduced to the suave Tom Ripley, a young striver seeking to leave behind his past as an orphan bullied for being a “sissy.” Newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan, Ripley meets a wealthy industrialist who hires him to bring his playboy son, Dickie Greenleaf, back from gallivanting in Italy. Soon Ripley’s fascination with Dickie’s debonair lifestyle turns obsessive as he finds himself enraged by Dickie’s ambivalent affections for Marge, a charming American dilettante, and Ripley begins a deadly game. “Sinister and strangely alluring” (Mark Harris, Entertainment Weekly) The Talented Mr. Ripley serves as an unforgettable introduction to this smooth confidence man, whose talent for self-invention is as unnerving—and unnervingly revealing of the American psyche—as ever.
The Double Negative Book Club is a discussion group in which a work of literature is examined in reference to its on-screen (film or TV) adaptation. This film is available on Hulu, AppleTV, YouTube, and through the Las Vegas-Clark County Library district. Please note: The Writer's Block will not be screening The Talented Mr. Ripley.
This book club will be hosted remotely on Zoom. Attendees are expected to have read the book in advance.
SEEK YOU: A CONVERSATION WITH KRISTEN RADTKE & JOSÉ ORDUÑA
The Black Mountain Institute and The Writer's Block are proud to present an evening with Kristen Radtke to celebrate the release of her new work of graphic non-fiction Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness.
Shameful to talk about and often misunderstood, loneliness is everywhere, from the most major of metropolises to the smallest of towns. Through deeply insightful comics, Kristen Radtke, Art Director of The Believer, shines a light on people’s most vulnerable and sublime moments. In Seek You, Radtke digs deep into the history of loneliness, the ways in which we attempt to feel closer to one another, and the distance that remains.
Join Radtke and essayist José Orduña virtually for a conversation on longing and a celebration of Seek You’s debut. This event will be held on Zoom. Please register here.
THE SOUTH/WEST BOOK CLUB
Wednesday July 14, 2021 | 6:00PM - 7:30PM
A book-discussion club featuring fiction set in the American Southwest.
This book club will be held in person and capped at 15 participants. Face masks are optional for fully vaccinated individuals. Please register at the link below to secure your spot.
The next meeting of the South/West Book Club will feature C. Pam Zhang's Booker Prize-nominated novel How Much of These Hills is Gold.
Newly orphaned children of immigrants, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refutes their existence. Fleeing the threats of their western mining town, they set off to bury their father in the only way that will set them free from their past. Both epic and intimate, blending Chinese symbolism and reimagined history with fiercely original language and storytelling, How Much of These Hills Is Gold is a haunting adventure story, an unforgettable sibling story, and the announcement of a stunning new voice in literature. On a broad level, it explores race in an expanding country and the question of where immigrants are allowed to belong. But page by page, it’s about the memories that bind and divide families, and the yearning for home.
Attendees are expected to have read the book in advance.
A two-part book club discussion of Charles Dickens’ novel, Bleak House.
This book club will be held in person person and capped at 15 participants. Face masks are optional for fully vaccinated individuals. Please register at the link below to secure your spot.
The Big Book Club tackles some of the thickest and most enduring novels in world literature. Broken into two sessions over four months, the club invites readers to experience these books at a leisurely pace, and to enjoy the companionship of fellow readers making the same journey at the same time.
Bleak House is Charles Dickens' masterful assault on the injustices of the British legal system. As the interminable case of 'Jarndyce and Jarndyce' grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; Esther Summerson, a ward of court, whose parentage is a source of deepening mystery; the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn; the determined sleuth Inspector Bucket; and even Jo, the destitute little crossing-sweeper. A savage, but often comic, indictment of a society that is rotten to the core, Bleak House is one of Dickens' most ambitious novels, with a range that extends from the drawing rooms of the aristocracy to the poorest of London slums. This edition follows the first book edition of 1853, and includes all the original illustrations by 'Phiz', as well as appendices on the Chancery and spontaneous combustion.
This is the second of two book-club sessions. Attendees are encouraged to read Bleak House from Book X (page 469) to the end of the book by this second meeting.
UNLV'S acclaimed Creative Writing MFA and PHD students read their work the last Friday of every month. Join us each month, beginning at 6pm, for original poetry, nonfiction and fiction stories from emerging writers.
The Neon Lit Reading Series began in 2009 and is run by the MFA and PhD students of UNLV’s Creative Writing Program. Each reading features writing and performances by current UNLV students and alumni. The writers at UNLV are creating pieces across all genres, and perform them as they please every month.
The 2021 schedule is as follows:
Friday, August 27th (Doors at 5:30pm)
Friday, September 24th (Doors at 5:30pm)
Friday, October 22nd (Doors at 5:30pm)
Friday, November 14th (Doors at 5:30pm)
Friday, December 3rd (A Poetry by Bus event. Readers will read on public buses in DTLV and meet at Writer's Block for a performance.)
This event is free and open to the public. More information is available here.
