The Knife Thrower and Other Stories by Steven Millhauser

Steven Millhauser

Steven Millhauser is an American novelist and short story writer. He won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel Martin Dressler. The prize brought many of his older books back into print.-Life and career:...

, first published in 1998 by Crown Publishers, Inc., New York. It is a collection of short stories, some of which were published by various journals, such as The Paris Review

Paris Review

The Paris Review is a literary quarterly founded in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen and George Plimpton. Plimpton edited the Review from its founding until his death in 2003. In its first five years, The Paris Review published works by Jack Kerouac, Philip Larkin, V. S...

, Harper's Magazine

Harper's Magazine

Harper's Magazine is a monthly magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts, with a generally left-wing perspective. It is the second-oldest continuously published monthly magazine in the U.S. . The current editor is Ellen Rosenbush, who replaced Roger Hodge in January 2010...

, and The New Yorker

The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...

. It continues in a similar vein to Millhauser's previous efforts that mix the extraordinary into everyday life.

Stories, with previous publishers, if available.

• "The Knife Thrower" (Harper's Magazine)
• "A Visit" (The New Yorker)
• "The Sisterhood of Night" (Harper's Magazine)
• "The Way Out" (Story)
• "Flying Carpets" (The Paris Review)
• "The New Automaton Theater" (Canto)
• "Clair de Lune"
• "The Dream of the Consortium" (Harper's Magazine)
• "Balloon Flight, 1870" (The Yale Review)
• "Paradise Park" (Grand Street)
• "Kaspar Hauser Speaks" (The Kenyon Review)
• "Beneath the Cellars of Our Town"