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The Pete Quiñones Show

Episode 1180: Dystopian Las Vegas w/ Lee Scrivner

The Pete Quiñones Show

Peter R Quiñones

Politics, Society & Culture, News, News Commentary

4.8951 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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69 Minutes

PG-13

Lee Scrivner is an American cultural theorist and academic, best known for his works Casinolabs (2025), Becoming Insomniac (2014), and “How to Write an Avant-Garde Manifesto” (2006). His research and writing focus on the Victorian and early modernist periods, as well as on contemporary issues. He has lectured at Birkbeck, University of London; Bosphorus University in Istanbul; American University in Washington, DC; and at National University in San Diego.

Lee joins Pete to talk about the themes explored in his latest novel, "Casinolabs." The novel is published by Imperium Press' new division, Exeter House.

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i want to welcome everyone back to the pekiniano show for the first time lee scrivener's here

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how are you doing lee i am doing really well thank you tell everybody a little bit about oh yeah yeah

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yeah no problem tell everybody a little bit about yourself before we jump in.

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Well, my name's Lee Scribner and I just recently finished a novel that I've been working on for way too long, many years.

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But it takes place in Las Vegas and I grew up in Las Vegas and was there in the 80s and 90s mainly.

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Mainly the 80s actually, so I'm kind of old.

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But then I moved around a lot and traveled the world.

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And finally finished writing this novel and I just want to get it out there.

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And I think, you know, it's a, it represents a lot of the kinds of things I've been thinking about lately.

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