STEVEN MILLHAUSER is the author of numerous works of fiction, including Martin Dressler, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1997, and, most recently, Dangerous Laughter, a New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year. His work has been translated into fifteen languages, and his story “Eisenheim the Illusionist” was the basis of the 2006 film The Illusionist. He teaches at Skidmore College and lives in Saratoga Springs, New York.
“Powerful ... A book of astonishingly beautiful and moving stories
by one of America’s finest and most original writers.... Millhauser
is one of the most imaginative writers we have, capable of pure
invention.... Sublime.” —Charles Simic, The New York Review of
Books
“Millhauser’s capstone collection of strange fables, written over
the past 30 years, don’t evoke life; they provoke
thought.” —San Francisco Chronicle, Best of 2011
“Millhauser is a writer whose work partakes both of the dream logic
strangeness of the post-Borgesian fictional tradition and the calm
virtuosity of mass magazine American story writing.... Steven
Millhauser is at his best when he is mysterious but
explicable—which is the case more now than ever.” —Times Literary
Supplement
“Exquisite ... I’m a Steven Millhauser fan. This kind of a book is
a story-writer’s crown ... a career capstone on behalf of writer
good enough to receive the honor.... The opening story is my
favorite among the new offerings ... it is a mirror of
unprecedented ungenerosity: it shows us only ourselves....
Devastating ... Suggestive ... Brave and inspired.”
—Jonathan Lethem, The New York Times Book Review
“Mesmerizing ... magical. We Others comprehends three decades of
work, and it’s remarkable not only for the consistent delight it
provides but also for the unwavering intensity of the vision that
animates it.”—The Nation
“Outstanding ... Each selection invites the reader to enter into
the strangeness of a mysterious and fascinating place. Don’t miss
these new and selected stories.” —The Providence Journal
“A Steven Millhauser story is meticulously worded, often off-kilter
at heart, and deserving of comparisons to Borges and Kafka. He has
built a reputation on producing a consistently mystifying and
provocative product. In this volume of new and selected works
written over 30 years, he offers us numerous tales from four
volumes whose storylines have been creative loci for him for
decades.” —The Boston Globe
“[We Others] is all the things a person wants a Steven Millhauser
book to be: lapidary, disturbing, mandarin, brilliant, perverse,
and funny.” —Slate
“Millhauser still wears the distinction of ‘short-story master’
around his neck like an albatross keeping him out of the spotlight.
With the arrival of his newest collection, the career-spanner We
Others, it’s clear that while he might prefer novels, short stories
remain his most accessible and influential work.... [Millhauser’s]
fierce imagination comes with a dark temperament instead of
positive humor.”
—The A.V. Club
“Fantastic and enchanting ... Millhauser is a master.... These
stories will seize your attention—and your imagination—with the
force of a vise grip.”—The Globe and Mail
“Many of the [twenty-one] stories collected [in We Others] walk the
line between absurdism and realism to dizzying effect....
Millhauser’s chops are indisputable, having won a Pulitzer for his
novel Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer. And both
the new stories and the old prove that he’s one of the most
inventive writers working today, constantly pulling apart and
reassembling his stories until they don’t resemble anyone
else’s.”—Time Out Chicago
“For almost 40 years, Steven Millhauser has been creating fables of
identity, exploring how an irruption of the magical or inexplicable
can unexpectedly transform a life or an entire society....
Steven Millhauser possesses the wand of an enchanter. In his books
the wonders never cease.”—The Washington Post
“Steven Millhauser's stories lure us into dark places with promises
of magic and wonder, and we're unable to look away—much less
flee—as the stories take a subtle turn and we see strange, even
terrifying things moving toward us. This must be how a small animal
feels as it waits, hypnotized, for the predator's pounce: In a
word, we have been millhauserized. Millhauser's new collection, We
Others: New and Selected Stories, offers 21 stories drawn from the
past three decades. Among them is some of the best contemporary
gothic fiction you're likely to come across.” —Richmond
Times-Dispatch
“Focusing on offbeat subjects like magicians, knife throwers
and Borgesian museums, working in an elegant, plainspoken style,
Millhauser conjures ordinary worlds that are stalked by
strangeness. Blending the eerie and the true is his hallmark; at
every turn he reminds us of how eager we are for a sense of magic
in our lives.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune
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