Podcast appearances and mentions of Steven Millhauser

Armando Besio"Il bello dell'orrido"Spavento, stupore, meravigliaIncontri d'autore vistalago a BellanoAlberto Rollo"Il grande cielo" Dalle Grigne al Monte Rosa, educazione sentimentale di un escursionistaPonte alle Graziesabato 23 marzo 2024 ore 18.00, BellanoAlberto Rollo, sarà in dialogo con Armando Besio, curatore della rassegna "Il bello dell'orrido".   Il grande cielo è la personale ricerca dell'autore di un posto nel mondo per sopportare il grigio del quotidiano, della montagna, con il suo cielo pieno di nuvole e pieno di sogni, come educazione alla vita e via di fuga.  “La visione delle montagne è andata crescendo insieme a quella della città. Mi sentivo messo davanti a due grandezze, a due misure”.  La moto raffigurata in copertina e presente nell'incipit del libro, una Guzzi rossa, è quella del padre ed è anche il fil rouge che collega Il grande cieloal suo precedente memoir Un'educazione milanese (Manni), tra i finalisti del Premio Strega 2017. Comune ai due testi è l'esplorazione di una città, Milano, e di una generazione, quella degli anni '50. Il quartiere popolare di Mac Mahon, raccontato dai romanzi di Giovanni Testori, è dove cresce Alberto Rollo, nato nel 1951: l'educazione comunista ricevuta dal padre, operaio con radici pugliesi, e dalla madre, cattolica, emerge pian piano insieme agli anni di ribellione sotto il segno dell'utopia politica e la speranza del comunismo come ideologia sognante; la giovinezza e la vita da adulto emergono capitolo dopo capitolo insieme al cambiamento della metropoli, la fine della vita operaia nelle grandi fabbriche, l'avvento della moda: una Milano diversa, con un nuovo skyline disegnato da archistar.  Rispetto al precedente, in questo testo si aggiunge un'esplorazione nuova, o meglio, attesa per tutta la vita, quella delle montagne, con i loro suoni, spazi, cime e cieli: l'esplorazione di luoghi osservati sin da bambino attraverso il racconto di storie, incontri e personali metafore.   “Vieni,” aveva detto mio padre quando mi aveva portato a contemplare le montagne. Ci metteva la sensibilità del maestro, sapeva raccontare. Diceva che ci saremmo venuti quando avrei potuto calzare degli scarponi. Indicava una cima e mi faceva immaginare la difficoltà, la fatica, il mistero. E più immaginavo più sentivo crescere il desiderio di cercare una strada e cominciare a salire. “Adesso non si può,” diceva. E allora? Allora perché portarmi lì, davanti alla barriera verde, ai picchi nudi sopra i boschi, al cielo così alto e azzurro che gridava.   Alberto Rollo inizia così la sua educazione sentimentale ai paesaggi di montagna, sul limitare dei boschi, oppure osservando dal basso le cime, guardando i cieli azzurri e lontani, arrivando all'inizio di un sentiero che non è il momento di percorrere perché non c'è mai la calzata giusta per farlo. Un'educazione all'attesa. La cima osservata in quell'uscita in moto con il padre è il monte San Primo, spartiacque del triangolo lariano e meta vicina a Sormano, località di vacanza della famiglia Rollo.Il grande cielo è una lunga escursione per cime e sentieri in compagnia dell'autore e del suo zaino pieno di storie, ricordi, emozioni, sfumature e scoperte.Alberto Rollo, nato a Milano, è scrittore, critico, traduttore e figura significativa dell'editoria italiana: una lunga carriera come direttore letterario per Feltrinelli e poi editoriale per Baldini+Castoldi e Mondadori. Operatore culturale, grande appassionato di musica, è traduttore, fra gli altri, di Jonathan Coe, Steven Millhauser, Truman Capote, Henry James. Ha pubblicato Un'educazione milanese (2016, finalista al Premio Strega 2017), L'ultimo turno di guardia (2020, Premio internazionale L'Aquila, terna finalisti Premio Napoli) e Il miglior tempo (2021).   Il calendario dei mesi primaverili prosegue:sabato 20 aprile: Sara Chiappori e Marco Bechis / Cile 1973. Il golpe contro Allende nelle tavole di Punto Finalsabato 26 maggio: Antonio Franchini / Era mia madre. "Il fuoco che ti porti dentro", il romanzo memoir di un protagonista dell'editoria italiana IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarewww.ilpostodelleparole.itDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.

Gisela Chípe, Vas Eli, and Arthur Morey enrich these tilt-a-whirl stories from Steven Millhauser. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile's Alan Minskoff discuss this Earphones Award-winning audiobook full of a remarkable variety of imaginary worlds. Three different yet all very convincing narrators voice simple characters whose lives become fantastically disrupted. Mischief, restrained malevolence, and twisty plots abound. Millhauser's resourceful imagination is well served in this rich audiobook. Read the full review of the audiobook on AudioFile's website. Published by Random House Audio Find more audiobook recommendations at audiofilemagazine.com Support for AudioFile's Behind the Mic comes from Dreamscape Publishing. Dreamscape is an award-winning independent publisher and multimedia studio that is committed to producing a diverse catalog of high-quality audiobooks. https://www.dreamscapepublishing.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's episode features interviews with two authors of short story collections. First, NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with Steven Millhauser about Disruptions, and why he likes to write stories that start off in the normal world and slowly become more and more unsettling until he feels he's pushed the limits as far as he can. Then, NPR's Juana Summers asks Jamel Brinkley about Witness, and how he incorporated gentrification in New York, masculinity and Blackness into his larger themes of obsession.

Neil Berger's adaptation of Steven Millhauser's short story “Eisenheim the Illusionist” introduced a romantic plot to a story about magical deception, but does it deliver? In episode 249, Luke & James discuss an overlooked film from the aughts, Edward Norton's performance as Eisenheim, an extremely elaborate plot, and the nature of ambiguous magic in movies about stage magic. Then they vote on which was better: the short story or the movie! Movie discussion: Ink to Film Buy any of the source material books or guest novels at Ink to Film's bookshop: www.bookshop.org/shop/inktofilm Ink to Film's Twitter, Facebook, Instagram (@inktofilm) Home Base: inktofilm.com Intro/outro music: “Ghibli Waltz” by Ross Bugden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbOiqJJ5RxU Luke Elliott Read “What Good is a Sad Backhoe?” by Luke Elliott Website: www.lukeelliottauthor.com Mastodon: https://wandering.shop/@LuminousLuke Twitter: https://twitter.com/luminousluke IG: https://www.instagram.com/lpelliott/ James Bailey Twitter: https://twitter.com/Jame_Bail

"The consortium was determined to satisfy the buyer's secret desire: to appropriate the world, to possess it entirely."  Josh reads the timely short story "The Dream of the Consortium" by Steven Millhauser from his collection The Knife Thrower.  We'll be back with more regularly scheduled style programming next week. Support: patreon.com/heatdeathpodLocationless Locationsheatdeathpod.comEvery show-related link is corralled and available here.Twitter: @heatdeathpodPlease send all Letters of Derision, Indifference, Inquiry, Mild Elation, et cetera to: heatdeathoftheuniversepodcast@gmail.comAlso, check out our newly updated YouTube channel for the hell of itSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/heatdeathpod)

Monica, Samantha & Greg guess the plot of movies/TV shows: Cut Bank & The Illusionist. Follow us on: www.instagram.com/implotsters/ www.twitter.com/implotsters www.facebook.com/implotsters www.youtube.com/channel/UCNt0P8dGWkM1OdnhKO3pXKg TikTok @Implotsters Visit our website: www.implotsters.com

Chang-rae Lee joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Coming Soon,” by Steven Millhauser, which appeared in a 2013 issue of the magazine. Lee’s sixth novel, “My Year Abroad,” will be published in February.

In this episode, Ryan and Erik discuss their favorite short stories, “Miracle Polish” by Steven Millhauser and “The Dream” by Julian Barnes. Then, Ryan can’t stop smirking at himself in the mirror. Also, Erik eats the same breakfast every day and doesn’t get sick of it.“Miracle Polish” by Steven Millhauserhttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/11/14/miracle-polish/amp“The Dream” by Julian Barneshttp://stevewasserman.co.uk/the-dream-by-julian-barnes/Email questions, suggestions, or corrections to us at turnthesubtitleson@gmail.com. You can follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram for information on upcoming episodes and behind the podcast nuggets.

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Steven Millhauser is one of the coolest, most uncanny, weird, beautiful, mysterious writer's writers that a lot of people haven't heard of, kind of a cross between Borges and Poe and Leave it to Beaver. And today The Bookening is talking about one of his best story collections, Dangerous Laughter. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Hiromi Ito, Tomoko Sawada, and Yukiko Motoya, look at women's roles in Japanese culture today plus the Japanese view of English-language literature with translator Motoyuki Shibata. Philip Dodd presents. Bethan Jones acted as the translator. Japan Now 2020 is a series of events taking place in Sheffield, Norwich and London organised by Modern Culture culminating in a day of events at the British Library on Saturday February 22nd. Hiromi Itō is one of the most prominent women writers in Japan who looks at sexuality motherhood and the body in her work which is translated by Jeffrey Angles. Yukiko Motoya’s first book in English, Picnic In The Storm, is a collection of short stories which include salary men being swept skywards by their umbrellas, to a married couple morphing into one another’s bodies. It was the winner of the Akutagawa Prize and the Kenzaburo Oe Prize. It is translated by Asa Yoneda Tomoko Sawada is a photographer and performance artist whose work explores gender roles and cultural stereotypes from a strongly feminist perspective. Translator Motoyuki Shibata, has introduced writers like Paul Auster, Richard Powers, Edward Gorey and Steven Millhauser to Japanese readers. You can find more programmes in the playlist Free Thinking explores Japanese culture https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0657spq Producer: Luke Mulhall

Kevin Wilson's fifth book, the novel NOTHING TO SEE HERE, is a perfect combination of everything that made his previous work so singular: the humor and edge of THE FAMILY FANG, the intensity of his short fiction, and the heart and earnestness of PERFECT LITTLE WORLD. He and James talk depicting basketball, writing being fun and versatile, keeping it short, and lacking a radar for weirdness. Plus, Ecco executive editor Zachary Wagman.   - Kevin Wilson: https://www.wilsonkevin.com/ Buy NOTHING TO SEE HERE: Buy NOTHING TO SEE HERE Kevin's work mentioned: "Blowing up on the Spot", PERFECT LITTLE WORLD, TUNNELING TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, THE FAMILY FANG, Buzzfeed essay: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kevinwilson/i-cant-save-my-son-from-the-anxiety-ive-passed-on-to-him.  Kevin and James discuss:  PLOUGHSHARES  Laura van den Berg  Lee Boudreaux  Harry Potter  The Southern Voices Festival  "A to B" from A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD by Jennifer Egan  Caki Wilkinson  Latina Davis  Kim Woodley  Grundy County  Franklin County  Kansas State  University of Florida  Patrick Ewing  Hakeem Olajuwon  Kevin McHale  THE DART LEAGUE KING by Keith Lee Morris  "Boys Town" by Jim Shepard  Harvard University  THE NEW YORKER  Calvin Trillin WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE by Shirley Jackson  A MEMBER OF THE WEDDING by Carson McCullers  MRS. CALIBAN by Rachel Ingalls  GOODBYE, VITAMIN by Rachel Khong  TREASURE ISLAND!!! by Sara Levine  BAD MARIE by Marcy Dermansky  THE LONGSHOT by Katie Kitamura  TRAIN DREAMS by Denis Johnson  Christine Schutt  Steven Millhauser  Larry Bird  Johnny Storm, "The Human Torch"  Julie Barer  Ecco  Greensboro Review  Nicole Kidman  Keith Urban  Christopher Walken  Ryan Call  - Zachary Wagman: @zackwagman Zack and James discuss:  THE FAMILY FANG BABY, YOU'RE GONNA BE MINE  PERFECT LITTLE WORLD  Saturday Night Live  ALA  The Lead Read  The Today Show  Vintage  Crown  Dennis Lehane  Dan Halpern  Hogarth  Knopf  New England Patriots  Gillian Flynn  Pulitzer Prize  Nobel Prize  YOUR HOUSE WILL PAY by Steph Cha  COLD STORAGE by David Koepp - http://tkpod.com / tkwithjs@gmail.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/ Instagram: tkwithjs

A man remembers a summer from his youth, filled with rides on a flying carpet. “Flying Carpets” is from Steven Millhauser’s collection THE KNIFE THROWER: AND OTHER STORIES, published by Crown in 1998. This episode is sponsored by Calm (www.calm.com/LEVAR).

This week we continue our Spring Forward season by discussing a short story by Steven Millhauser called "The Dome. The piece envisions a future in which individual homeowners start building domes over their houses, followed by neighborhoods, then cities, then the entire United States of America. We talk about the story as a thought experiment, and how to write a successful story that has no characters (at least not in the traditional sense). In the second half of the show we talk about domes: dome houses, and proposals to cover towns and cities with domes.

Stuart Dybek joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss "Miracle Polish," by Steven Millhauser, from a 2011 issue of the magazine. Dybek is a poet and fiction writer, whose story collections include "Paper Lantern: Love Stories" and "Ecstatic Cahoots: Fifty Short Stories." He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2007.

Ben Loory returns with a second collection of timeless tales, inviting us to enter his worlds of whimsical fantasy, deep empathy, and playful humor, in the signature voice that drew readers to his highly praised first collection. In stories that eschew literary realism, Loory's characters demonstrate richly imagined and surprising perspectives, whether they be dragons or swordsmen, star-crossed lovers or long-lost twins, restaurateurs dreaming of Paris or cephalopods fixated on space travel. In propulsive language that brilliantly showcases Loory's vast imagination, Tales of Falling and Flying expands our understanding of how fiction can work. Appealing to the fans of fantasy, horror, and sci-fi writers like Ray Bradbury, Neil Gaiman, and Philip Pullman, as well as contemporary literary powerhouses like George Saunders, Karen Russell, and Helen Oyeyemi, Tales of Falling and Flying expands our understanding of how fiction can work and is sure to cement Loory’s reputation as one of the most innovative short-story writers working today. Praise for Tales of Falling and Flying “Ben Loory’s stories are little gifts, strange and moving and wonderfully human. I devoured this book in one sitting.” —Ransom Riggs, author of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children “Russell Edson’s new protégé, or Steven Millhauser, distilled into tea. Meet, or re-meet Ben Loory, whose preposterous, friendly stories can’t help but charm. They are so bizarrely readable they don’t even feel like they’re made of words.”—Aimee Bender, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake “Parables, dark fables, quirky flash fictions—call them what you will, Ben Loory has perfected the form and in Tales of Falling and Flying proves once again he can disturb a little and entertain a lot. Easily read, not easily forgotten.”—Jeff VanderMeer, author of Borne and The Southern Reach Trilogy “To read a Ben Loory story is to slip through a portal into an adjacent dimension. To learn—with brevity and clarity—the laws of this universe next door, new rules of logic and contradiction and truth. And, in the end, to be left with the disturbing and wondrous feeling of having never left home at all.” —Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe “Ben Loory is a wonder. I'd like to curl up inside his marvelous head and canoodle with a besotted squid, swallow a tiny dragon, levitate with Death and fall in love with the Eiffel Tower, and after reading these sublime stories-- slyly funny, melancholy and deeply weird-- I suppose I have, and it was fantastic.”—Elissa Schappell “Equal parts Beckett and Twilight Zone . . . Perfect for reading on strange beaches and by oddly shaped swimming pools. Fits right in your pocket or purse for emergency doses of the charming and weird.” —Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander Ben Loory is the author of the collection Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day, and a picture book for children, The Baseball Player and the Walrus. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, READ Magazine, and Fairy Tale Review, been heard on This American Life and Selected Shorts, and performed live at WordTheatre in Los Angeles and London. A graduate of Harvard University and the American Film Institute MFA program in screenwriting, Loory lives in Los Angeles, where he is an Instructor for the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program. Event date:  Thursday, September 7, 2017 - 7:30pm

Join us for release party for Issue 50 of TIMOTHY McSWEENEY’S QUARTERLY CONCERN. To celebrate our 50th issue, we’ve put together a guaranteed show stopper, with stories, essays, treatises, manifestos, letters, comics, and illustrated travel diaries from fifty different contributors. There’s stunning new work from writers who we’ve long published — Jonathan Lethem, Lydia Davis, Sherman Alexie, Etgar Keret, Sheila Heti, Diane Williams, Sarah Vowell, John Hodgman, Steven Millhauser (among many others) — and fantastic new writing from authors who we’ve long admired, including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Thomas McGuane, Kevin Young, and Carrie Brownstein. The physical object that will contain all this great work will be a sturdy and beautiful hardcover book— something to behold and something to keep. Plus, the dust jacket folds out into a poster by Tucker Nichols that can gaze down at you from above your breakfast nook, bathtub, gift wrapping station, or wherever you’d like to be reminded of 50 glorious issues of the McSweeney’s Quarterly. Readers include: Kevin MoffettCorinna VallianatosSarah WalkerCarson MellBrian Evenson    Event date: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 - 7:30pm

In search of some nostalgic holiday cheer, V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell climb in the way back machine and time travel to 1997 with critic and editor Oscar Villalon and novelist Curtis Sittenfeld. Oscar rounds up the books that won prizes twenty years ago, the books that remain relevant, and explains why these books aren't always the same. Curtis talks to us about Monica Lewinsky, Esquire, The Prairie Wife, Sex and the City and the very literary politics of 1997. PLUS an *exclusive* preview of her novel-in-progress about a Hillary Rodham who never becomes a Clinton. Readings (Fiction): Underworld by Don DeLillo; You Think It, I'll Say It, by Curtis Sittenfeld; The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy; American Pastoral by Phillip Roth; Paradise by Toni Morrison; Martin Dressler by Steven Millhauser; The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald; The Farewell Symphony by Edmund White; Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier; Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling. Readings (Nonfiction): Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt; The Commissar Vanishes: the Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia by David King; The Rape of Nanking: the Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang; The Women by Hilton Als; Sex and the City by Candice Bushnell. In the Stacks will be back in two weeks. Happy Holidays! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

IT'S WHAT EVERYONE HAS BEEN WAITING FOR THE WHOLE YEAR, OUR DISCUSSION OF MARTIN DRESSLER BY STEVEN MILLHAUSER, WAHOOOOOOO!!!! That's right, our heroes are talking Steven Millhauser, that poet of the uncanny creeping at the edges of the mundane (he' s not actually a poet). This is one of Nathan's favorite books we read this year ... BUT SHOULD IT BE???????? Over the next couple weeks, our heroes intend to find out. Our heroes are awesome (00:00) DONOR SHOUTOUTS! (05:00) (Newer donors, you should all be included by the time our heroes do Dubliners) The Contextual Texan Talks Millhauser + Post-Modernism (08:15) Why People (Including Andrew Henry) Have Trouble With Millhauser's Hypnotic Effect (17:07) Magical Realism (28:52) Baggage Check (35:05) Jake And His Family Went To a Cool Museum One Time (51:03) Throws us a couple bucks on Patreon!★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

We read Steven Millhauser's short story Eisenheim the Illusionist (don't skip this one, folks) and watched its 2006 adaptation The Illusionist directed by Neil Burger starring Edward Norton and a very awe-induced Paul Giamatti. Join us as we revel in the mastery that is Steven Millhauser before extensive talk about sad warlock Edward Norton and his turn of the century facial hair. You'll also hear Bridget's spot-on Paul Giamatti impression before we tell the tale of how our resident skeptic Ginny was won over by real life illusionist Criss Angel. Keep in touch at radaptationspod@gmail.com and @Radaptations.

Richard Powers joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Steven Millhauser’s “A Visit,” from a 1997 issue of the magazine.

The Uncanny Reader: Stories from the Shadows (St. Martin's Griffin)  From the deeply unsettling to the possibly supernatural, these thirty-one border-crossing stories from around the world explore the uncanny in literature, and delve into our increasingly unstable sense of self, home, and planet. The Uncanny Reader: Stories from the Shadows opens with “The Sand-man,” E.T.A. Hoffmann's 1817 tale of dopplegangers and automatons—a tale that inspired generations of writers and thinkers to come. Stories by 19th and 20th century masters of the uncanny—including Edgar Allan Poe, Franz Kafka, and Shirley Jackson—form a foundation for sixteen award-winning contemporary authors, established and new, whose work blurs the boundaries between the familiar and the unknown. These writers come from Egypt, France, Germany, Japan, Poland, Russia, Scotland, England, Sweden, the United States, Uruguay, and Zambia—although their birthplaces are not always the terrains they plumb in their stories, nor do they confine themselves to their own eras. Contemporary authors include: Chris Adrian, Aimee Bender, Kate Bernheimer, Jean-Christophe Duchon-Doris, Mansoura Ez-Eldin, Jonathon Carroll, John Herdman, Kelly Link, Steven Millhauser, Joyce Carol Oates, Yoko Ogawa, Dean Paschal, Karen Russell, Namwali Serpell, Steve Stern and Karen Tidbeck. Marjorie Sandor is the author of four books, most recently The Late Interiors: A Life Under Construction. Her story collection, Portrait of my Mother, Who Posed Nude in Wartime, won the 2004 National Jewish Book Award in Fiction, and an essay collection, The Night Gardener: A Search for Home won the 2000 Oregon Book Award for literary non-fiction. Her work has appeared in The Georgia Review, AGNI, The Hopkins Review and The Harvard Review among others. She lives in Corvallis, Oregon. Aimee Bender is the author of the novels The Color Master, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake—a New York Times bestseller—and An Invisible Sign of My Own, and of the collections The Girl in the Flammable Skirt and Willful Creatures. Her works have been widely anthologized and have been translated into sixteen languages. She lives in Los Angeles.

Steven Millhauser appears at the 2012 Library of Congress National Book Festival. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5697.

Cynthia Ozick reads Steven Millhauser's "In the Reign of Harad IV."

Excerpt from a story by Steven Millhauser.