Douglas Unger has long been known as a writer of political fiction. He is the author of four novels, including Leaving the Land, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Robert F. Kennedy Award, and Voices from Silence, a year’s end selection by The Washington Post’s Book World. He is also the author of the short story collection Looking for War and Other Stories. Unger’s writing has appeared in Narrative, Boulevard, Southwest Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Brooklyn Rail, and numerous other publications. He is cofounder of the MFA in Creative Writing International and the PhD with Creative Dissertation programs at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he teaches in the Department of English affiliated with the Black Mountain Institute, an important literary center in the American West. Unger also serves on the executive board of Words without Borders. In 2007, he was inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame.

“What a smart and compelling way to investigate the moral slipperiness of Las Vegas— through building and construction, through all those involved in the making and unmaking of this city. Unger portrays these everchanging landscapes and the players within them with elegance and insight." —Aimee Bender, author of The Butterfly Lampshade: A Novel, longlisted for the 2020 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award  “The quintessential Las Vegas novel. Unger dwells in the details, and his evocation of the dream—and its painstaking construction—is utterly convincing. Build it and they will come—or maybe not.”—T.C. Boyle, distinguished professor emeritus of English and writer in residence emeritus, University of Southern California, author of Blue Skies: A Novel

Douglas Unger has long been known as a writer of political fiction. He is the author of four novels, including Leaving the Land, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Robert F. Kennedy Award, and Voices from Silence, a year’s end selection by The Washington Post’s Book World. He is also the author of the short story collection Looking for War and Other Stories. Unger’s writing has appeared in Narrative, Boulevard, Southwest Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Brooklyn Rail, and numerous other publications. He is cofounder of the MFA in Creative Writing International and the PhD with Creative Dissertation programs at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he teaches in the Department of English affiliated with the Black Mountain Institute, an important literary center in the American West. Unger also serves on the executive board of Words without Borders. In 2007, he was inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame.

“What a smart and compelling way to investigate the moral slipperiness of Las Vegas— through building and construction, through all those involved in the making and unmaking of this city. Unger portrays these everchanging landscapes and the players within them with elegance and insight." —Aimee Bender, author of The Butterfly Lampshade: A Novel, longlisted for the 2020 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award  “The quintessential Las Vegas novel. Unger dwells in the details, and his evocation of the dream—and its painstaking construction—is utterly convincing. Build it and they will come—or maybe not.”—T.C. Boyle, distinguished professor emeritus of English and writer in residence emeritus, University of Southern California, author of Blue Skies: A Novel

Douglas Unger has long been known as a writer of political fiction. He is the author of four novels, including Leaving the Land, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Robert F. Kennedy Award, and Voices from Silence, a year’s end selection by The Washington Post’s Book World. He is also the author of the short story collection Looking for War and Other Stories. Unger’s writing has appeared in Narrative, Boulevard, Southwest Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Brooklyn Rail, and numerous other publications. He is cofounder of the MFA in Creative Writing International and the PhD with Creative Dissertation programs at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he teaches in the Department of English affiliated with the Black Mountain Institute, an important literary center in the American West. Unger also serves on the executive board of Words without Borders. In 2007, he was inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame.

“What a smart and compelling way to investigate the moral slipperiness of Las Vegas— through building and construction, through all those involved in the making and unmaking of this city. Unger portrays these everchanging landscapes and the players within them with elegance and insight." —Aimee Bender, author of The Butterfly Lampshade: A Novel, longlisted for the 2020 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award  “The quintessential Las Vegas novel. Unger dwells in the details, and his evocation of the dream—and its painstaking construction—is utterly convincing. Build it and they will come—or maybe not.”—T.C. Boyle, distinguished professor emeritus of English and writer in residence emeritus, University of Southern California, author of Blue Skies: A Novel