{"id":14782,"date":"2025-10-21T22:48:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T22:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=14782"},"modified":"2026-02-18T22:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T22:30:17","slug":"robert-stark-interviews-lee-scrivner-about-casinolabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=14782","title":{"rendered":"Robert Stark interviews Lee Scrivner about Casinolabs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Robert Stark and Matt Pegas<\/a> speak with Lee Scriver<\/a> about his novel Casinolabs, which is a psychological thriller set in Las Vegas. Casinolabs is published by Imperium Press<\/a>\u00a0and is also\u00a0available on Amazon<\/a>. Also, check out Robert’s review of Casinolabs<\/a>. Lee is a former adjunct professor at UNLV,\u00a0 is known for his satirical avant-garde arts manifestos, and is the author of Becoming Insomniac<\/a>. Subscribe to Lee on substack<\/a> and check out his Youtube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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-How Lee found artistic success in London including performing at the Tate Britain
\n-Whether Americans are philistines about culture
\n-How Lee ended up sharing a dressing room with Yoko Ono in London
\n-How Lee’s upbringing in Vegas inspired Casinolabs
\n-Lee’s dad, who dealt with the darker underbelly of Vegas as a crisis counselor
\n-Why explicitly rightwing art fails
\n-How literary agents filter out people on identity issues
\n–The Las Vegas Review Journal’s review that compared Casinolabs to the show Severance<\/a>
\n-Contrasting GenX alienation in Casinolabs and Bret Easton Ellis’s work with the millennial\/zoomer incel trope in Robert’s novel Vaporfornia<\/a><\/em> and Matt’s novel Dragon Day<\/a>
\n-How Casinolabs is fundamentally a critique of atomization, the breakdown of families, and a lack of meaning crisis
\n-The parallels between the Casinolabs casino design firm deconstructing Vegas history and the protagonist Morton getting his brain fried
\n-Why Casinolabs only partially veers into magical realism
\n-The labyrinths in Casinolabs and Vaporfornia as the backrooms<\/a>
\n-Philosophical questions about fate vs random coincidences
\n-Lee’s early job at Caesars Palace
\n-Finding deeper meaning out of post modernist themed casinos in Vegas
\n-Minimalist renovations that erase Vegas’s limited cultural inheritance
\n-The symbolism of the Vegas Sphere as a giant phone screen that is malleable
\n-Contrasting today’s Vegas with the older stage of capitalism where every man was a king
\n-Is Vegas dying?
\n–Woke inspired minimalist renovations<\/a>
\n–Vegas and Disneyland as Baudrillard’s simulacrum<\/a>
\n-Planned suburbia as the counterpart to the Vegas strip
\n-Robert and Matt visiting Mount Charleston recently
\n-How the overstimulation of Vegas drove Lee to asceticism
\n-Lee’s paganism and thoughts on the pagan professor Wallingford in Matt’s Dragon Day<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Lee-Scrivner-compressed.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

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Robert Stark and Matt Pegas speak with Lee Scriver about his novel Casinolabs, which is a psychological thriller set in Las Vegas. Casinolabs is published by Imperium Press and is also available on Amazon. Also, check out Robert’s review of Casinolabs. Lee is a former adjunct professor at UNLV,  is known for his satirical avant-garde arts manifestos, … Continue reading Robert Stark interviews Lee Scrivner about Casinolabs<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,542,709,221,623,457,980,6,203,470,607,156,459,1344,1093,1268,12,591,446,422,243,449,276,60,978,448,1428,116,813,270,1191,193,66,600,798,169,172,622,1007,86,131,59,555,762,1339,1277],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-aesthetics","category-alienation","category-american-culture","category-architecture","category-art","category-bret-easton-ellis","category-california","category-capitalism","category-conformity","category-conspiracy-theories","category-corporations","category-culture","category-dan-baltic-matthew-pegas","category-disneyland","category-dragon-day","category-economics","category-england","category-gambling","category-gender","category-generation-x","category-historic-preservation","category-history","category-incels","category-jean-baudrillard","category-las-vegas","category-lee-scrivner","category-literature","category-london","category-los-angeles","category-matthew-pegas","category-millennials","category-neoliberalism","category-neon","category-philadelphia","category-philosophy","category-political-correctness","category-politics","category-postmodernism","category-psychology","category-social-capital","category-social-isolation","category-suburbia","category-surrealism","category-vaporfornia","category-zoomers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14782"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14797,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14782\/revisions\/14797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}