Life Goes to the Movies

A tour de force, Life Goes to the Movies is the love story of two straight men: a dark devil of a Vietnam vet-turned-filmmaker, and the naive Italian American innocent who follows him to the edge of madness and beyond. Funny, engaging, and entertaining, this is just a great story told well.

Peter Selgin''s short story collection Drowning Lessons won the Flannery O''Connor Award for Short Fiction. H...