Review of Contemporary Fiction, Volume 26: Spring 2006, No. 1 (Review of Contemporary Fiction, 26) - Softcover

Millhauser, Steven

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564784460 ISBN 13: 9781564784469

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, 2001

Synopsis

Over the past twenty-five years, the Review of Contemporary Fiction has earned a reputation for being one of the most important journals covering contemporary literature. Through essays, excerpts, and an extensive book review section, the Review is dedicated to the discussion and celebration of innovative fiction, and some of the most influential authors of the twentieth century have been featured in its pages. (See page 46 for a full list of available issues.)

About this title

About the Author:

Steven Millhauser was born in 1943 in New York City, and grew up in Connecticut. He received a B.A. from Columbia University in 1965, and went on to pursue a doctorate in English at Brown University. He never completed his dissertation, but did complete a novel that was eventually published in a pared-down form under the title "From the Realm of Morpheus-as well as Edwin Mullhouse". However, it was for his stories that Millhauser became best known; immaculately written, curiously vivid, they trod on fantastic boards in a manner reminiscent of Poe or Borges, but with a distinctively American voice. After "In the Penny Arcade", Millhauser's collections continued with "The Barnum Museum" (1990), "Little Kingdoms" (1993), and "The Knife Thrower and Other Stories" (1998). Steven Millhauser lives in Saratoga Springs, New York, and teaches at Skidmore College.

O'Brien has held writing fellowships at the University of Iowa and Stanford University.

Review:

"Compared to the dyspeptic comments heard in the average book review, these are expressions of a huge hunger--the precondition, I would argue, to any period of literary feasting."

About this edition

• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1564784460
• ISBN 13: 9781564784469
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 158
• Editor: O'Brien John