New collection of short stories by Millhauser

Professor of English Steven Millhauser has written Dangerous Laughter (Knopf, 2008), a collection of 13 "darkly comic" short stories "united by their obsession with obsession."

According to the publisher, the stories are divided into three parts: Vanishing Acts, "stories of risk and escape," Impossible Architectures, where "excess reigns in ... vivid, haunting places,"
and Heretical Histories, featuring alternative views of the past.

Millhauser, Tisch Professor of Arts & Letters at Skidmore, has been called "a writer whose prose possesses the equivalent of what musicians call perfect pitch" and "one of our most inventive writers." He won a Pulitzer Prize for Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer (Random House, 1997), and his short story "Eisenheim the Illusionist" was the basis of the motion picture The Illusionist.

More at the publisher's Web site