For those of you who didn’t get to read the Sunday New York Times because you were a) in Montreal, b) don’t know how to read, or c) just didn’t wake up until Monday, you missed out on a great author/book review. Skidmore’s most renowned short story author Steven Millhauser had one of his essays, “The Ambition of the Short Story,” and a biography featured in Sunday’s edition. If you don’t have Millhauser as your Fiction Writing professor, or aren’t familiar with his work, you may recognize him as the writer of the story from which the movie, “The Illusionist,” was based. You may also be impressed to know that he is the recipient of the ’97 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel Martin Dressler.

All things considered, Skidmore has more to offer than cold weather and a spot on the Princeton Review’s “Reefer Madness” list. Millhauser is not teaching any courses this semester, but keep your eye’s out next semester when he may be offering a class on how to write well and be really cool.