Dillinger in Hollywood: New and Selected Short Stories

Before John Sayles was an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and celebrated independent filmmaker, he was a National Book Award-nominated writer of fiction. Now John Sayles has written his first short story collection in twenty-five years. The keynote story — "Dillinger in Hollywood" — is populated by leftovers from the Golden Age of Hollywood who live in a nursing home catering for "below-the-line" talent — dancers, stunt doubles, horse wranglers, stand-ins, studio drivers — who now wait for dea...