With Schaeffer and the Mandalay Resort Group providing the initial funding, the International Parliament of Writers invited Cheney-Coker to come to Las Vegas for at least a year, perhaps two. I'm going to devour both halves of Las Vegas. Perhaps, he speculated, the city will nourish his creativity more than, say, a London or a New York. Establishment has a way of destroying innovation. But no matter who shows up, and whatever time of the year, they get an audience.
People are hungry here, in search of things to feed their souls.