From the publisher:
"Roy Kesey has been hailed as one of our best young writers. All Over presents nineteen of his most original stories."
From the publisher:
"Winner of the Bullfight Little Book Prize, Nothing in the World sold out its original printing in just a few months. Dzanc Books is excited to bring this remarkable work back into print."
From the introduction:
"The city’s central symbol is a mythological animal called the bixie: leonine head and body, the wings of an eagle on its back, the scales of a dragon along its flanks. This chimera’s mission, it is said, is to protect the city of Nanjing, and at first glance one might think that it has not quite been up to the task. The city has been destroyed countless times as successive empires waxed and waned, its inhabitants slaughtered, its relics looted, its monuments and palaces and towers razed. But a closer look at the bixie reveals a key to both the past and the present of this city: its head is held high, is raised, in fact, to Heaven, not in supplication but in pride, perhaps even defiance."