Coming Unglued: Six Stories about Things Falling Apart — Multiple Authors

The six stories of Coming Unglued take us on a tour of moments when, as Yates put it things fall apart/the center cannot hold, moments populated by Stalin's paranoid flunkies, postapocalyptic free love commune dwellers, spin doctors for a town accursed, teachers keeping secrets, and luckless art thieves bedeviled by hulking men in black.