num_pages: 224
description: Their love story ended many years ago. He still writes her name as a solution to crossword puzzle clues of suitable length. Alex Epsteins miniature stories are indeed love stories puzzles stray clues the beginnings or ends of philosophical treatises parables modernized legends or perhaps a vivid handful of images thrown together then allowed to disperse. This is a form of which he has been hailed as a master a form as singular and intricate as a collection of fingerprints. His stories are populated by angels chess players mythical figures Walter Benjamin Franz Kafka lovers young and old writers of disappearing languages; they are set in airports trains the sites of legends hotels bookstores in countries that no longer exist dreams. In each of them Epstein draws precisely the smallest possible world and revels in the great possibilities of a single sentence. In each of them we are invited to celebrate everything that can happen before the tip of the pencil breaks against the bright paper.
language: English
title: Blue Has No South
publisher: Clockroot Books