Research Catalog

Title

Literary Las Vegas : the best writing about America's most fabulous city / edited by Mike Tronnes ; introduction by Nick Tosches.

Publication

New York : H. Holt, 1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

Tronnes, Mike.

Description

xx, 358 p. : ill.; 20 cm.

Subject

• City and town life > Las Vegas > Literary collections
• American literature > Las Vegas
• Las Vegas (Nev.) > Literary collections

Genre/Form

Literary collections

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The holy city / introduction by Nick Tosches -- Las Vegas (What?) Las Vegas (Can't hear you! Too noisy) Las Vegas!!!! / Tom Wolfe -- Blackjack and flashes / Daniel Lang -- In Las Vegas : working hard for the money / Jane O'Reilly -- From Vegas : a memoir of a dark season / John Gregory Dunne -- From The biggest game in town / A. Alvarez -- Hanging out / Robert Alan Aurthur -- From Memoirs of a gangster's daughter / Susan Berman -- Fanciful press agentry / Katharine Best, Katharine Hillyer -- Dressed in dynamite / A.J. Liebling -- From The big room / Michael Herr -- From Fear and loathing in Las Vegas / Hunter S. Thompson -- Casino Queen / J. Randall Prior -- Marrying absurd / Joan Didion -- Las Vegas : the odds on anything / Michael Ventura -- From Elvis : revival at Las Vegas / Albert Goldman -- From the Noel Coward diaries : "Nescafe society" / Noel Coward -- From How I got cultured : a Nevada memoir / Phyllis Barber -- Lost Vegas / Alan Richman -- Who'll stop the Wayne? / Richard Meltzer -- From Nevada : true tales from the neon wilderness : "Melvin and Howard" : a Nevada fairy tale / Jim Sloan -- Viva las wine goddesses! / Merrill Markoe -- Jim Crow for Black performers / Faith Fancher, William J. Drummond -- Penny ante / Edward Allen -- Searching for sin city and finding Disney in the desert / Marc Cooper.

ISBN

• 0805036695
• 0805036709 (Owl book pbk.)

LCCN

^^^94043199^

OCLC

• 31515436
• SCSB-10676925

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library