Las Vegas, Nevada (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)
Referenced In
The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians
by James Patterson"It’s about these two best friends who go to this mythical land called Las Vegas. They go to a casino, and to a circus that gives them money."
Valley of Genius
by Adam Fisher"There was a guy—the name of the company was Pixelon—he raised fifteen, eighteen million dollars, had no product, went to Las Vegas, hired the Who and, I think, Kiss."
Rising Sun
by Michael Crichton"I went to Vegas for the weekend. I won big. I paid taxes on thirteen thousand in unearned income that year."
Rising Sun
by Michael Crichton"What do you think I'm talking about, you son of a bitch?" she said, furiously. "I'm talking about Las Vegas."
Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion"Benny Austin went back to Vegas, I ran into him in the Flamingo a few years ago."
Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion"When she turned off at Baker it was 115° and she was picking up Vegas on the radio and she was within sixty miles of where Carter was making the picture."
Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion"go out on the desert between Vegas and Boulder and drink beer from half-quart cans"
Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion"…her father was not in this picture, keep him out of it, say he had gone into Vegas with Benny Austin…"
Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion"She had flown out from New York on Friday and then it was Sunday and Benny Austin was there for Sunday dinner and after dinner they would all drive down to Vegas to put Maria back on the airplane."
Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion"It was dawn before she reached Vegas and, because she stopped in Vegas to buy cigarettes, eight o’clock before she reached Tonopah."
Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion"For the rest of the time Maria was in Las Vegas she wore dark glasses. She did not decide to stay in Vegas: she only failed to leave."
Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion"From a pay phone on the highway outside Las Vegas she called the number Benny Austin had given her."
Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion"I said we’d meet them in Vegas. Helene’s there already."
Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion"They had been on the desert three weeks when Susannah Wood got beaten up in a hotel room in Las Vegas."
Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion"I thought you’d be in Vegas," BZ said when Maria opened the door."
Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion"BZ stood up. “You go into Vegas.”"
Mecca
by Susan Straight"… went through the San Bernardino Mountains to Barstow, and on to Las Vegas."
Mecca
by Susan Straight"Morris sold fur coats in LA, San Francisco, and Vegas."
City of Night
by John Rechy"…I know this cute kid he told he was going to take to Las Vegas and spend all kinds of fabulous sums on him (which he hasnt got)…"
City of Night
by John Rechy"She promised to take him to Las Vegas, spend all kinds of money on him if he’d let her make him—and then she gives the kid a phony phone number—..."
The Barbarian Nurseries
by Héctor Tobar"They passed an electronic sign announcing destinations and departure times, LAS VEGAS BUS, TEXAS EAGLE, SURFLINER NORTH, and then suddenly entered a room where the low ceilings disappeared..."
If He Hollers Let Him Go
by Chester Himes"I was getting the hell out of L.A. Away from Alice too. Going to 'Frisco, maybe. Las Vegas. Somewhere."
If He Hollers Let Him Go
by Chester Himes"…I knew I had to get out of California before daylight, go somewhere and hide until I got healed up. Las Vegas, maybe."
Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis"“I just got back from Vegas,” Spin says."
Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis"My great-grandfather died in one. At the Stardust in Las Vegas. He had been dead two days before anybody found him."
Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis"The director’s wife stopped by to tell us that they were flying to Las Vegas for the weekend."
The Mars Room
by Rachel Kushner"There was that kid in tiny, Sweet Tart–pink shorts who nicked off her instructor in Las Vegas."
The Mars Room
by Rachel Kushner"We liked to travel. We went to Vegas."
The Mars Room
by Rachel Kushner"Put their bodies in his trunk, and eject them into the dumping ground of desert between LA and Vegas."
The Sellout
by Paul Beatty"What we got? Las Vegas and fucking El Pollo Loco."
Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion"Susannah Wood lay down on Maria’s bed. “Let’s go into Vegas.” “It’s all planned.”"