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Can Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh Reinvent Downtown Las Vegas?Story by Daniel Brook Love it or hate it, Las Vegas is one of the country’s most fertile hothouses for experiments with urban form. This…

Words that are not lost on me as I attempt to understand, with the few resources available, Charles Portis the person. Words not lost as I sit down to write anything, but especially this — an attempt to peer at a brilliant, funny, but altogether unknown-to-the-public author. As I wonder what he sees from his Arkansas window at night before bed, whether he uses slippers, and, if so, to whom this footwear would be famous. What he might and might not care to read, if he were to read this.