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Copyright © 2011 by Steven Millhauser

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“Tales of Darkness and the Unknown, Vol. XIV: The White Glove” originally appeared in Tin House; “Getting Closer” and “The Invasion from Outer Space” originally appeared in The New Yorker; and “The Next Thing” originally appeared in Harper’s.

Selected stories in this work were previously published in the following collections:

“A Protest Against the Sun” (first published in The New Yorker), “August Eschenburg” (first published in Antaeus), and “Snowmen” (first published in Grand Street) in In the Penny Arcade, copyright © 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985 by Steven Millhauser (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986).

“The Barnum Museum” (first published in Grand Street), “The Eighth Voyage of Sinbad” (first published in Grand Street), and “Eisenheim the Illusionist” (first published in Esquire as “The Illusionist”) in The Barnum Museum, copyright © 1990 by Steven Millhauser (New York: Poseidon Press, 1990).

“The Knife Thrower” (first published in Harper’s), “A Visit” (first published in The New Yorker), “Flying Carpets” (first published in The Paris Review), and “Clair de Lune” in The Knife Thrower, copyright © 1998 by Steven Millhauser (New York: Crown Publishers, 1998).

“Cat ’n’ Mouse” (first published in The New Yorker), “The Disappearance of Elaine Coleman” (first published in The New Yorker), “History of a Disturbance” (first published in The New Yorker), and “The Wizard of West Orange” (first published in Harper’s) in Dangerous Laughter, copyright © 2008 by Steven Millhauser (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008).

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Millhauser, Steven.
We others : new and selected stories / Steven Millhauser. –1st ed.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-70143-5
I. Title.
PS3563.I422W42 2011
813′.54–dc22    2011000078

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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