The People of Las Vegas

January 31st, 2020 | Issue one hundred twenty-nine

Las Vegas is both stranger and more normal than you might imagine, and for some reason, people don’t think anyone lives there

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The LensCrafters at the Boulevard Mall, A Shopping Elvis, Unpaid Markers, Parachute Writers, Casino Field Trips, Tom Wolfe, Pia Zadora, Good Taste, Vegas Towers, A Conspicuous Green M&M, Battleborn, The Target on Flamingo and Maryland, Dave Hickey, Esoteric Sports Cars, Found Art, An Ineffable Magic

by Amanda Fortini
Illustrations by Carole Barraud
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Amanda Fortini has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, and California Sunday, among other publications. She is a visiting lecturer at the Hank Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and has been a Shearing Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute. She divides her time between Las Vegas and Livingston, Montana.

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