Lunch with M-House AKA Steven Millhauser

A few of my classmates and I just had lunch with Steven Millhauser, author of awesome books like The Knife-Thrower, In the Penny Arcade, Martin Dressler, and the forthcoming Dangerous Laughter. Things discussed:

Spencer's The Faerie Queene, and, related to that, Millhauser's love for vertical lines-- stories with attics, basements, and level ground.

Teaching undergrads, and how it's best to be kind and encouraging.

The wonders of a patron, and, in lieu of that, a one class per 2 semester teaching load at a place like Skidmore, where Millhauser teaches.

The new "realism" of his recent stories, which he has been reading almost like a rapper, which birthed his new rap name, M-House.

He rocks my world. Read him.