An Interview with Steven Millhauser

This interview was conducted by e‑mail between November 20th and December 10th 2003, in the wake of Steven Millhauser’s readings in Paris Marc Chénetier: Could I begin by asking you how you see the place the collection The Knife‑Thrower occupies in your work, not in terms of chronology, even though its composition is not itself entirely chronological, but in terms of its relative importance, thematically and/or formally? Steven Millhauser: I’m almost superstitiously reluctant to comment on th..