Millhauser book a collection of new, favorite stories
Steven Millhauser
Professor of English Steven Millhauser has a new book: We Others: New and Selected Stories, released in August by Knopf.
According to the publisher's web site, "The stories gathered here unfurl in settings as disparate as nineteenth-century Vienna, a contemporary Connecticut town, the corridors of a monstrous museum, and Thomas Edison's laboratory, and they are inhabited by a wide-ranging cast of characters, including a knife thrower and teenage boys, ghosts and a cartoon cat and mouse. But all of the stories are united in their unfailing power to surprise and enchant."
Michael Dirda, who reviewed the book in the Aug. 31 issue of The Washington Post, wrote, "In general, Millhauser's style blend a peculiar wistfulness with a fanatical
attention to the particular: He has said that 'one never forgives a work of art that
is general and vague.' ...Millhauser calmly mixes fairy tale and literary experiment,
surreal nightmare and ecstatic vision, gorgeous prose and sly humor. But he also adds
a profound Americanness."
Avowed Millhauser fan Jonathan Lethem reviews the book in the Sept. 4 edition of
The New York Times Book Review .
Read more about the book at the publisher's web site.
