''The Knife Thrower and Other Stories'' by

Steven Millhauser Steven Millhauser (born August 3, 1943) is an American novelist and short story writer. He won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel '' Martin Dressler''. Life and career Millhauser was born in New York City, grew up in Connecticut, ...

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

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, and

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. 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"

References

''The Knife Thrower and Other Stories'' by Steven Milhauser, published by Vintage Press, First Vintage Contemporaries Edition, March 1999. {{DEFAULTSORT:Knife Thrower and Other Stories 1998 short story collections Crown Publishing Group books American short story collections