The Knife Thrower - Steve Milhauser
Jul. 19th, 2018 01:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I can't remember how I came across this - I think it was one of those 10 Authors to Read if You're a Weird Fiction N00b articles. Anyway, I'm really glad I did. Apparently Steve Milhauser is a Proper Writer, which I didn't appreciate. It shows - these are a collection of small spare stories that take immense skill to write well. And they get under your skin - from weird marriages to villages of automata specialists. And into the rise and fall of the biggest theme park on earth. They are just faintly disturbing and unforgettable. I think they're supposed to be about American Values and their essential pointlessness. But that's a rather thin way of analysing something that works its effect so well.
Definitely read. I'm going to get more of his stuff.