“John Glionna is a true original who could roll out of bed, wander into an empty town and with his sideways sensibilities and peculiar passions come back with a go-to-hell, never-told tale before lunch. If you're a writer, you'll wonder, ‘Now why didn't I think of that?’ If you're a reader, you're in for a treat. He understands that stories are all we have, in the end, to understand the world, each other and ourselves.”

—Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times columnist, author of The Soloist, a New York Times bestseller

“John Glionna starts with the premise that everybody has a story to tell, and he goes on to listen and write the hell out of it. His stories in Rebels and Outliers take you from deserts to prisons, where you meet gay cowboys, a cross dresser, a midwife, a professional gatecrasher and a postmaster trying to keep her near-ghost town alive. Glionna's stories will change the way you look at humanity with all its glorious permutations, and never again to dismiss anybody as boring.”

—Barbara Demick, National Book Award finalist, author of the recently published Daughters of the Bamboo Grove

“Really, how does Glionna find these people? It’s his secret sauce, the step-stone to telling singular American stories. I hope he keeps finding them so we can marvel at the way life unfolds in so many quirky and challenging ways, especially across the American the West. This is a fantastic collection.”

—Roger Smith, former nacional editor, Los Angeles Times, editor, USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics.

• Builds on readership from last book with press, Outback Nevada

• Can be used as a guide to both writing and history classes

• Name recognition of Los Angeles Times writer