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Moses and Dressler
Moses and Dressler
Martin Dressler walking around the city and imagining its possibilities is a nineteenth-century version of Robert Moses walking around his New York. The difference is that Dressler imagines the vertical possibilities; Moses, the horizontal ones.
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Moses and Dressler
A musical Illusionist
A musical Illusionist
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s next musical is titled The Illusionist, inspired by the movie The Illusionist, itself a very loose adaptation of Steven Millhauser’s story “Eisenheim the Illusionist.”
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A musical Illusionist
DO NOT DISTURB
DO NOT DISTURB
“Oddly enough, reading has rarely created in me a desire to see more of the world. Reading a work of deeply imagined fiction seems to replace the outer world so completely that I ask nothing except not to be disturbed.”
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DO NOT DISTURB
Steven Millhauser’s Disruptions
Steven Millhauser’s Disruptions
Having read all of Steven Millhauser’s published fiction, I sometimes torment myself by trying to decide which of his books to recommend as a way into his work, recognizing that to begin with one would be to miss — at least for a time — the delights of all the others. If a reader were to begin reading Millhauser with a book other than Disruptions, his new collection of eighteen stories, here is some of what that reader would miss
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Steven Millhauser’s Disruptions
Two Millhauser reviews
Two Millhauser reviews
Two reviews of Steven Millhauser’s new book of stories, Disruptions : one not so smart, in The New York Times, and one smart, in The New Yorker.
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Two Millhauser reviews
Steven Millhauser and K-pop
Steven Millhauser and K-pop
The group is Billlie; the song is “Enchanted Night,” which shares its title with Steven Millhauser’s 1999 novella. You can see a member of the group holding the paperback in the video. Readers of the novella will notice a clear connection.
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Steven Millhauser and K-pop