As Maya Sela reports in And for his next trick ... in Haaretz, 'Fed up with the way his books were being handled by local publishers and bookstores, experimental novelist Alex Epstein chose to offer readers his latest volume of short-short stories on Facebook'.
That would be לקסם הבא אזדקק לכנפיים ('For My Next Trick I'll Need Wings'), available here.
He says:
That would be לקסם הבא אזדקק לכנפיים ('For My Next Trick I'll Need Wings'), available here.
He says:
"The title comes from the world of Twitter," explains Epstein. "It's based on the phrase 'For my next trick I'll need,' which is usually said ironically about something unattainable. The story talks about this gap, about the loss of print, the extinction of print, and in general how books change."But, yes:
a few months from now, this book too will be published by Carmel in conventional form, with pages and a binding.See also the complete review reviews of his Blue Has No South and Lunar Savings Time.