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	Dream Lover - The World and I Magazine
		Millhauser's short stories, which have appeared in Antaeus, the New Yorker, and elsewhere, are particularly evocative.
		Millhauser, with his dazzlingly detailed descriptions of settings, fashions, speech habits, and mannerisms, creates a realm that, though an authentic evocation of the burgeoning city, is entirely his own--or Martin's, who witnesses the transformation of the rural outskirts of the city through his immoderately fecund imagination:
		But Millhauser suggests that it is because he cannot find shelter in his private life that Martin is driven to build ever more elaborate structures, as though each building is a body to encompass his restless, unhoused spirit.
	www.worldandi.com /public/1996/october/ar2.cfm (2584 words)

	Books \| Darts and stars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Steven Millhauser’s The King in the Tree is by far the more sour of these two valentines.
		Sentence by sentence, Millhauser displays an awesome amount of control over his narrator’s voice, pitching her from cordial dismay to rage and back again with utter believability.
		Again, Millhauser’s ability to control the pitch and tone of his narrator’s voice allows this story to soar where other writers might have failed.
	www.portlandphoenix.com /books/other_stories/documents/02704444.asp (1219 words)

	Aaron Brock: Engl 4300 Essay
		"I read Steven Millhauser in a state of enchantment, quite conscious that he is seducing me with his intelligence and his craft, while leading me back to the source of imagination.
		Millhauser elegantly combines these two literary vehicles in his work "Klassik Komix" in a way that simplifies the form but still allows the reader to use his/her mind to draw its own pictures.
		Millhauser uses this situation with Alfred to create an environment of magical realism that is often used in comic books.
	core.ecu.edu /engl/whisnantl/4300/aaron.htm (999 words)

	Hallucinatory Stories of Obsession and Desire / Millhauser's fantasy worlds have a persuasive logic
		Millhauser spells out this paradox when his narrator, trying to dismiss rumors of ``cloud-towns'' and sky rivers said to exist in the upper atmosphere, ends up having to admit that ``even as you refused to believe them, you saw them, as if the sheer effort of not believing them made them glow in your mind.''
		Many of Millhauser's confabulations affect the reader in just this way, whether they depict present-day upstate New York, Kaspar Hauser's Nuremberg, the Paris of the 1870 siege or a Coney Island amusement park of the 1920s, to pick just four from this collection.
		This is Millhauser at his purest, complete with the return to normality that follows these otherworldly excursions.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1998/05/03/RV9355.DTL (724 words)

	Amazon.ca: The King in the Tree: Three Novellas: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Steven Millhauser is certainly one of America's best writers and, even though he does write novels (MARTIN DRESSLER won the Pulitzer Prize), I think he's still better known for his novellas and his short stories.
		Millhauser is at his finest in the first of the three marvelously written and conceived novellas in this colection.
		Millhauser writes with elegant and eloquent prose, asking us to linger over his pages the way we might linger over a painting in a museum walk.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0375415408 (1938 words)

	Dalkey Archive Press: Steven Millhauser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Some of Millhauser's stories bring to mind the somber ironies of Kafka and Borges, but in general his imagination has a light, serene quality--the quality of a precocious child's delight in his own ingenuity.
		After the success of his first novels (Edwin Mullhouse and Portrait of a Romantic), Steven Millhauser went on to enchant critics and readers with two short story collections that captured the magic and beauty of his longer works in vivid miniature.
		"Steven Millhauser is a worthy descendant of Hawthorne.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /dalkey/backlist/millhauser.html (854 words)

	Review \| The King in the Tree: Three Novellas by Steven Millhauser
		In Steven Millhauser's trio of novellas The King in the Tree, love is like that box of stale crackers on the bottom shelf of the pantry you just cannot bring yourself to throw out.
		In these two novellas, Millhauser elevates his language into understated elegance which borders on a style so antique you can very nearly smell the musty velvet.
		Suffice to say, if Millhauser hits you over the head with a blunt instrument in the other two stories, here he cuts with razors.
	www.januarymagazine.com /fiction/kingintree.html (848 words)

	Blogcritics.org: The King In The Tree
		There is nothing of the bludgeon in this writing - Millhauser is a surgeon at the peak of his profession and he wields the scalpel of his writing with astounding virtuosity and skill as he dissects that most basic - and, in his conceptualisation, the most base - of all human emotions: love.
		Millhauser's forte is the gradual, but relentless, drawing of the reader into a web from which he cannot escape.
		Here the writing assumes the richness of medieval tapestry and Millhauser catches all the atmosphere and spirit of the age with castles and hunts and horrendous punishments and wandering minstrels and incessant court intrigue.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2004/01/03/044818.php (1072 words)

	NewStandard: 11/27/99
		So prevalent is Millhauser's repetition of imagery, so insistent on the dark blue night sky and ever-present moon, that the story is itself suffused with sky and moonlight.
		Characters are introduced in evocative vignettes: Laura, the restless adolescent; Haverstraw, the failed writer; Janet, the heartsick lover; a band of hoodlum girls; forgotten toys that come to life in an attic; a mannequin longing for release from her pose; and others, longing in the night, drawn outside by the moon's pull.
		Millhauser alludes to the symbolic feminine power of the moon, most directly through a gang of high school girls who break into houses and take food and other small items.
	www.s-t.com /daily/11-99/11-27-99/b03ae079.htm (455 words)

	Steven Millhauser, Enchanted Night (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In simple, lilting prose, Steven Millhauser awakens the silvery magic of the summer moon in his novella, Enchanted Night.
		Millhauser's ability to depict the aching dreams of small-town lives -- the adolescents and the aging, the lovers and the loners -- is most potent in his attitude toward his characters.
		Yet Millhauser's serious examination of his characters' lives cannot hide the air of whimsy that infects the entire novel.
	rambles.net /millhauser_night.html (432 words)

	Irreal (Re)views 1: Irrealism in the U.S.A. (book reviews) by Alice Whittenburg
		This technique is, in part, Millhauser’s way of bringing the reader more deeply into his somewhat formal stories which are not strong on plot or character, but it also serves to validate the observations of the narrator and encourages a willing suspension of our disbelief.
		Millhauser also deals imaginatively with elements of a shared public life that was so important at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.
		The overly baroque creations of Millhauser’s entrepreneurs and artistes, as in “Paradise Park,” lead to “more and more extreme forms until, utterly exhausted but unable to rest, they culminate in the fl ecstasy of annihilation.” Maybe Millhauser, unlike the science fiction writers of the sixties, is too sophisticated to try to warn us.
	home.sprynet.com /~awhit/review1d.htm (1803 words)

	Love seduces, stings in story collections by two fine writers
		Steven Millhauser's collection is by far the sourer of these two valentines.
		Millhauser's ability to evoke the way paranoia ambushes us like this makes the second story, "An Adventure of Don Juan," an excruciating page-turner.
		In his third, Millhauser reimagines the ancient story of Tristan and Isolde, recasting the King as a cuckold driven mad by jealousy.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/20030216lovebooks0216fnp5.asp (901 words)

	Books & Reading: Book Reviews
		In contrast, the best, and strangest, of his curious and tantalizing new stories are dreamy tales of altered consciousnesses – a child on a flying carpet, a balloon navigator in the Franco-Prussian War; the most original and successful are written in the first person plural.
		In Little Kingdoms Millhauser wrote brilliantly about the real and unreal forms of the first animated cartoons, a new kind of two-dimensional imaginary world for the mind to inhabit.
		Millhauser's world is the imaginary world that once held angels and demons, mythic beasts and gardens, heaven and hell.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/books/reviews/knifethrowerandotherstories.htm (889 words)

	Geoff Dyer & Steven Millhauser for less! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The middle section is composed of three stylistically linked forays into the classic short story mode, each of which stages an elaborate wedding of location with season to produce an exquisite evocation of an exact yet unnameable emotion, and each of which manages to pull it off.
		In the character of Martin Dressler, Millhauser has found a character that fulfills both his personal needs as a writer and the novel’s needs for justification.
		Millhauser’s inimitable style carries the reader through the life-cycle of Dressler’s dream of life that seems so real that at times its hard to believe that it’s only a dream; but then, the best of dreams are always like that, aren’t they?
	home.earthlink.net /~copaceticcomicsco/BookBargains2.html (460 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Natalie Prochnow '97, a student of Millhauser's, was among those cheering in the hallway.
		Millhauser's shock was compounded by the fact that the Pulitzer Prize Board does not release the names of the works under consideration for the prize.
		Despite the critical acclaim that has been heaped upon both Millhauser and his novels, his students say that he is exceedingly humble both in and out of the classroom, and the recent Pulitzer Prize is unlikely to change this.
	www.skidmore.edu /studentorgs/skidnews/back/96-97/4-10-97/news.html (2700 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - Steven Millhauser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Millhauser impressed both critics and readers with his fresh approach to childhood and adolescence in his first two novels, Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer, 1943-1954, by Jeffrey Cartwright (1972) which won the Prix Médicis Étranger Award in France for the best foreign novel, and Portrait of a Romantic (1977).
		In addition, Millhauser has published a fourth novel, From the Realm of Morpheus (1986), and three collections of short stories, The Barnum Museum (1990), In the Penny Arcade (1986), and Little Kingdoms (1993).
		Millhauser received the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction in 1994 and an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1987.
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/millhsr.html (422 words)

	Books: Falling in love with automatons (Seattle Weekly) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Steven Millhauser's new stories expand the surreal world of his novels.
		Millhauser's originality rests in his ability to render the utterly fantastic as utterly realistic.
		Millhauser's most persistent theme is the predicament of the artist who, in his or her search for perfection, often escapes—or is subsumed—into an artificial world that is both a symptom of madness and a grandiose expression of genius.
	www.seattleweekly.com /arts/9827/books-moody.php (635 words)

	The Athens NEWS: Twice weekly alternative
		Short-story writer and novelist Steven Millhauser won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for his novel "Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer." Creating new worlds is much of what Millhauser's work is about and he is often compared to fabulist writers Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino.
		Millhauser is professor of English at Skidmore College.
		Mary Robison's biting depictions of contemporary American life were first unleashed on the literary world in 1977 when The New Yorker published her short story, "Sisters." Only six years later, the magazine had published dozens of her stories and she had three short story collections in print.
	www.athensnews.com /issue/article.php3?story_id=16751 (484 words)

	Ohio University Outlook
		Authors Steven Millhauser, Mary Robison and Alphonso Lingis, as well as poets Carl Dennis and Sharon Olds will be on Ohio University's Athens campus May 5-7 reading from their work and conducting symposia.
		Millhauser's recent work, "The King in the Tree," is a collection of three novellas where he again enters the realm of myth and fable to retell the stories of Don Juan and Tristan and Isolde.
		Robison, a Mississippi writer of novels and short stories, is known for her meticulous delineation of American life, according to Nathan Ihara in the L.A. Weekly.
	www.ohio.edu /outlook/342f-034.cfm (1004 words)

	BOMB Magazine: Steven Millhauser by Jim Shepard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I first met Steven Millhauser some 16 years ago, when, with my friend Ed Hirsch along as a somewhat disinterested coconspirator, I induced Steven to meet us at the Russian Tea Room.
		The sensibility on display was a revelation: the book posited childhood as a magically illuminating state, and the tenderness and generosity of its perceptions made that wonderful and Nabokovian claim entirely persuasive.
		Nine books later, Steven's work is still all about magical illuminations: The King in the Tree, three novellas, opens up the intensities of obsessive love and anguished betrayal with both minute precision and startling élan.
	www.bombsite.com /millhauser/millhauser.html (195 words)

	Boston Globe Online / From the Archives / Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Even when Millhauser's stories do have contemporary settings, the world as we know it is transformed.
		To offer a summary of Millhauser's plots might easily suggest that he is writing surreal melodramas, stories that, whatever their virtues, will make us throw up our hands in disbelief, but like Kafka -- surely one of his most important influences -- Millhauser draws us effortlessly into the shimmering worlds of his fictions.
		Those familiar with Millhauser's work will, I think, inevitably be reminded of his gorgeous story ``Eisenheim the Illusionist,'' which follows, at greater length, the same obsessive trajectory from the quotidian to the extraordinary, the innocent to the fatal.
	www.boston.com /globe/search/stories/books/steven_millhauser.htm (954 words)

	RCF - Book Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Steven Millhauser’s work has always had a romantic quality about it.
		His characters are dreamers who revel in the wonderment of imagination or are victimized by their own obsessions.
		Millhauser’s version is a strained love triangle in which the king, his queen (Ysolt), and his nephew (Tristan) are all perpetually denied the object of their affection.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /review/bookreviews/03_1/king.html (304 words)

	Books at Random House of Canada \| The King in the Tree by Steven Millhauser
		But when Millhauser is plumbing the mysteries of the human heart, there’s no question that he is writing after, not before, Sigmund Freud–and Kate Chopin, and John Updike and the sexual revolution.
		In the Millhauser Wonderland, time reels backward, life is but a fairy tale, and figures of mythology rule the universe.
		Steven Millhauser received the Pulitzer Prize for Martin Dressler.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400031733 (705 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, 11th Annual Collection
		Steven H Silver is one of the founders and judges for the Sidewise Award for Alternate History.
		Steven will be serving as the Programming Chairman for Chicon 2000.
		In addition to maintaining several bibliographies and the Harry Turtledove website, Steven is trying to get his short stories published and has recently finished his first novel.
	www.sfsite.com /07b/fant37.htm (1144 words)

	Salon Books \| The Knife Thrower
		BY D.T. eading Steven Millhauser is like watching a 3-year-old playing alone.
		Millhauser's last book, the novel "Martin Dressler: the Story of an American Dreamer," won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize, providing this brilliant and idiosyncratic writer with some long-overdue recognition.
		His surpassing genius is his ability to involve us in worlds that don't exist but that are nonetheless real.
	www.salon.com /books/sneaks/1998/06/05sneaks.html (644 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| MARTIN DRESSLER by Steven Millhauser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Steven Millhauser attended Columbia College and pursued graduate studies at Brown University.
		His first novel, Edwin Mullhouse, was published in 1972; since then he has published three volumes of short stories and three novels, the most recent of which is Martin Dressler, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1997.
		Millhauser has also received the Lannan Award and has been honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/martin_dressler-author.asp (89 words)

	Books - Scholarship & Academic Achievements
		The book, Millhauser's 10th in 30 years, explores the many shapes of love.
		Millhauser's earlier works include Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer (Crown, 1996), winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for fiction; Enchanted Night (Crown, 1999), The Knife Thrower and Other Stories (Crown, 1998), Little Kingdoms (Simon and Schuster, 1993), and The Barnum Museum (Simon and Schuster, 1990).
		Millhauser's honors include election in 1998 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; the 1994 Lannan Literary Award for Fiction; and a 1987 award in literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
	www.skidmore.edu /academics/acad-life/books.htm (1159 words)

	Books at Random House of Canada - Author Spotlight: Steven Millhauser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Steven Millhauser lives in Saratoga Springs, New York and teaches at Skidmore College.
		His first novel, Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright, which has been out of print since 1990, is now available in trade paperback from Vintage Contemporaries, to coincide with the publication of Martin Dressler.
		A master of literary transformation, Pulitzer Prize-winner Steven Millhauser turns his attention to the transformations of love in these three hypnotic novellas.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/author.pperl?authorid=20750 (256 words)

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