Dangerous Laughter

Every little thing needs its little opposite so without a tiny mouse there would be no cartoon about a big foolish cat trying to catch a smart mouse… The stories in the collection are very diverse, belong to the different genres but all of them show artful originality… He said that books weren’t made......more

Steven Millhauser, nacido en Nueva York en 1943, ganador del Premio Pulitzer por ‘Martin Dressler’, es un escritor esquivo, al estilo de Salinger y Pynchon, un escritor que huye de las entrevistas y al que no le gusta ser fotografiado. Hace unos años, saltó a la fama cuando se adaptó un cuento suyo,......more

Dangerous Laughter by Steven Millhauser is a difficult book to rate. It is a collection of short stories, but one has stretch the definition of "story" by quite a lot to call some of them by that name. Many are what can be called "sketches" - of an idea, of a person or of a situation. All of them ar......more

Excellent collection of stories. 12 of the 13 stories were grouped into 3 parts. I think that is what attracted me to wanting to read the collection. I thought within a collection of stories they might be related to each other (i.e., character in one story also being in other stories), but they were......more

Thanks to a good friend, I have now been introduced to this exceptional writer. It always pleases me to find new, inventive writers who touch on my interests yet are writing in the "lit" world, as it implies to me a continuum of writing, without having to resort to either strict definitions of genre......more