Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs and Binion's World Series of Poker
In 2000, novelist and poet James McManus was sent to Las Vegas, innocently enough, by
Harper's magazine to write a story about the World Series of Poker held annually at Binion's Horseshoe. But then, as so often happens on trips to Sin City, something kind of ... happened. Rather than becoming an objective report, McManus's article evolved into a memoir as he put his entire advance on the line, got lucky with his cards and won a spot in the competition, and came much closer than anyone expected to winning the darn thing. The result,
Positively Fifth Street, is just as dazzling, exciting, and disturbing as Vegas itself.
