2002-01-24 “Ducat man: Selling coke on the Strip.” Las Vegas Mercury. by Jasper Lamar Crabbe.
2002-06-06 “The view from a steep hill: why Hunter S. Thompson’s classic is and isn’t about Vegas.” by Gregory Crosby.
2002-11-14 “Tales of Vegas past: signs of the times.” Las Vegas Mercury. by Gregory Crosby.
2003-04-10 “Here is Las Vegas: for expat Geoff Carter, Vegas is out of sight but rarely out of mind.” Las Vegas Weekly. by Geoff Carter.
2003-09-14 “Vanity, vanity.” Las Vegas Review Journal. by Steve Sibelius.
2003-10-08 “Happy trails to you.” Las Vegas Mercury. by Gregory Crosby.
2003-12-04 “Fishing in the desert: artifice, nature, and human nature at Lake Las Vegas.” Las Vegas Weekly. by Stacy J. Willis.
2006-06-08 “All apologists.” by James P. Reza.
2007-02-15 “Sucking pennies in the seventies: notes on the good old daze and what Hunter S. Thompson got wrong.” Las Vegas Weekly. by Dave Hickey.
2007-02-22 “Vegas’ corrupt reputation: let’s make earnest efforts to maintain it!” Las Vegas Weekly. by Stacy J. Willis.
2009-07-19 “A code of allusions and alleles: exploring John O’Brien’s last novel, ‘Better,’ his sister sees clues to the ‘Leaving Las Vegas’ author’s suicide.” Los Angeles Times. by Erin O’Brien.
2010-01-07 “E-Mail from the future! A writer’s future self-reports back from 2020 when things have really changed.” Las Vegas Weekly. by Geoff Carter.
2010-11-14 “The frontline of decline: a poor quality university, such as UNLV, provides neither economic stimulus, adequate job preparation, education for citizenship nor a cultural resource for its community.” Las Vegas Review Journal. by William M. Epstein.
2011-06-23 “My residence, myself: reflections on getting slaughtered in the housing market.” Vegas Seven magazine. by Stacy J. Willis.
2014-07-03 “Inertia.” Vegas Seven magazine. by Lissa Townsend Rodgers.
1997-05-18 “Love and loathing in Las Vegas: Michael Ventura finds fodder for writing among the neon and neighborhoods that make up what he calls ’a mythic city’. Las Vegas Review Journal. by Susan Greene.
1997-05 “Soul in the raw: a report from Las Vegas.” Psychology Today. by Michael Ventura.
2008-03-27 “Why can’t anyone get the Vegas novel right?” Las Vegas City Life. by Andrew Kiraly.