No other way to say it. This guy is all over the map. Like AL Alvarez (Part One) and Anthony Holden (Part Two), this is another way of saying that he writes about a lot of different things.

James McManus is a Chicago-based poet and novelist who wrote the classic, Positively Fifth Street, about making it to the final table of the 2000 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.

Like Alvarez, his life is an open book. He even characterizes himself as sometimes being