Steven MIllhauser Archive
Objects in Mirror: Emotional Distance in Writing
"You pass through a world so thick with phantoms there is hardly room for anything else" reads a line in Steven Millhauser's short story "Phantoms." The story uses a communal voice and direct statements to the reader to engage us with its ideas.
The Narrowed Divide: Of Stylists, Shape-Shifters, and Multiple Aesthetics
Our collective understanding of how a story, poem, or essay should operate remains in constant flux; every sentence is a new description of language, every piece of writing, a new commentary on art. In this sense, any shared definition of storytelling is best left unresolved, unless we are