Russ Stahl is the greatest novelist and artist of the 21st Century. Prose is dying a slow death by video. His revolutionary prose is the answer. He has created the first wordless n...view moreRuss Stahl is the greatest novelist and artist of the 21st Century. Prose is dying a slow death by video. His revolutionary prose is the answer. He has created the first wordless novel-the words disappear when you begin reading. It is also the first epiphanic novel-chock full of epiphanies. Melville said the novel must be truer than nonfiction.Orpheus in Tampa contains information about the world that can be red about nowhere else. It is the result of a lifetime of enquiry, travel and reflection. He was one of the most effective advocates in history and performed prodigies in the courtroom. He is an accomplished painter, a thinker and historian-the Leonardo of the New World. His daughter, Christine, is the Medical Director of Central Command, MacDill Airforce Base. He lives alone in St Augustine and writes.view less