This dazzling collection of new stories tears down the lace curtains of sentiment and stereotype
"The stories in John McManus's Born on a Train are powered by radiant prose
Heed the call
a trio of badass hit-women who picked up the slack when the going got too real for other so-called top-level assassins
leading to a purge of gay men and lesbians from the federal government
Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder Rail Travel This dazzling collection of newNo one knows more about everything especially everything rude, clever, and offensively compelling than John Waters. The man in the pencil thin mustache, auteur of the transgressive movie classics Pink Flamingos, Polyester, Hairspray, Cry Baby, and A Dirty Shame, is one of the world's great sophisticates, and in Mr. Know It All he serves it up raw: how to fail upward in Hollywood; how to develop musical taste, from Nervous Norvus to Maria Callas; how