Description
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Through an incongruous gauntlet of slot machines and slot canyons, visitors and locals strive to make connections. How does navigating a beautiful wasteland affect their views of romance and regret?
A collection of original short stories, plus a series of text-based artworks, Love in the Dunes: Las Vegas Writers on Passion and Heartache challenges the common definitions of desire and heartbreak. Some of these tales express love that’s as bleak as the miles of desert surrounding Sin City. Others describe love vividly, like basking in the glow of downtown’s Glitter Gulch.
In this 12th volume in the annual Las Vegas Writes anthology, 12 local writers articulate how people surrender their hearts in a city of lust and taboo, comfort and hunger, sweetness and despair—searching beyond the glamour to reveal what it means to encounter love in Las Vegas.
Las Vegas Writes is a program of Nevada Humanities, published by Huntington Press, with support from the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, and part of the Las Vegas Book Festival. Las Vegas Writes anthology is an annual collection of writings by local authors focused on a theme connected to Las Vegas. For more information visit: https://www.nevadahumanities.org/las-vegas-writes
About The Editor(s)
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JARRET KEENE is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he teaches American literature and the graphic novel. He has written books—travel guide, rock-band biography, poetry collections—and edited short-fiction anthologies such as Las Vegas Noir and Dead Neon: Tales of Near-Future Las Vegas. |
