McGlue Maya West Learning from Las Vegas: The

Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form

and the magic of small beginnings

Produced in close collaboration with the architects and published for a major exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London

twisting truth into despair—and even thoughts are no longer safe

McGlue Maya West Learning from Las Vegas: TheSalem, Massachusetts, 1851: McGlue lies in the ships hold, too drunk to know his own name, his bearings, or his fateonly that he may have killed a man. That man might have been his closest friend. Sobriety brings no clarity, only the crush of memory. Setting sail across the rough waters of literary tradition, Ottessa Moshfegh delivers a vicious, unrepentant rogue on a razor edged voyage through the murk of recollection. They say Ive done something