“L. A. likes to think of Las Vegas as the populuxe mirage of Hollywood, a place where middle-class tourists look like movie stars but aren’t, spend like millionaires but aren’t.”

—  Richard Rodríguez

Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography (2013)

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American journalist and essayist 1944

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