Asked to briefly describe House of Leaves, Danielewski has said in an interview that he “likes to look at House of Leaves as a three-character play: a blind old man, a young man, and a very special, extraordinarily gifted woman. Jonathan Lethem, award-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet.

Danielewski’s sister is the rock singer POE and her album, Haunted, serves, in many ways, as a companion piece to House of Leaves (and vice versa). Thrillingly alive, sublimely creepy, distressingly scary, breathtakingly intelligent—it renders most other fiction meaningless. On September 15, 2010, Danielewski announced the work on his message board: "Later this month publishers will receive the first 5 volumes of Mark Z.That summer, Poe and Danielewski spent three months as the opening act for Depeche Mode's 2001 North American tour. The novel also requires constant physical manipulation to read, whereas only certain sections of House of Leaves require readers to flip the book around. Danielewski's descriptions of the explorations of the interior are amazing (think Into Thin Air in a surreal dreamscape). I try to get hardcovers if I have the option because they fare much better whenever I move (and I move a LOT), but what really matters are the pictures inside.

PLEASE NOTE: the whole colophon is replete with metafictional misinformation: the first editions all state 2nd edition, with the fictional 'privately distributed' edition that the 'editors' of the Foreword allude to being the (ficitonal) first edition, etc. In 1985 Danielewski, aged 19, visited his half-brother, who was living on Rue des Belles Feuilles in Paris.They went to roughly thirty-two publishers before Edward Kastenmeier from Pantheon decided to take on the project.

Does this have everything that the US paperback has (ie blue text), does it have more/different stuff? Writing House of Leaves took ten years, and between 1993 and 1999, Danielewski made a living as a tutor, barista, and plumber. Etsy’s 100% renewable electricity commitment includes the electricity used by the data centres that host Etsy.

It is also an innovative and interesting book that can be enjoyed fully on its first reading but like say Gene Wolfe's work it can be reread to fully extract all the potential meanings and puzzles. The house is completely baffling, Johnny is sliding into madness, and there is something evil that haunted Zampano and the house on Ash Tree Lane and now stalks Johnny. During this time he became involved with Derrida, a documentary about the career and philosophy of Algerian-born French literary critic and philosopher Jacques Derrida. Stephen King ~ The Shining ~ 1977 ~ First Edition Book BCE ~ Vintage Horror Novel ~ Published By Doubleday. Also, books subsequently signed by the author on publicity tours have always been exclusively signed on page [ix].

On February 2, 2018, Danielewski announced via a Facebook post that The Familiar had been paused, saying "I must agree with Pantheon that for now the number of readers is not sufficient to justify the cost of continuing. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth-musicians, tattoo artists, programmers, strippers, environmentalists, and adrenaline junkies-the book eventually made its way into the hands of older generations, who not only found themselves in those strangely arranged pages but also discovered a way back into the lives of their estranged children.

A bizarre hallway—dark, cold, and haunted by a menacing growl—has suddenly appeared in his new home, and within its darkness lies an ominous architecture that mutates, viruslike, with every trip inside, offering a deadly threat to Navidson's wife, Karen, and their young children; to his brother Tom, whose loyalty Navidson abuses; to his friends who become involved in the quest; and finally and most directly, to himself. In January 2016, [18] Danielewski adopted two Devon Rex kittens, Archimedes and Meifumado, [19] after his previous Devon Rex companions, Sibyl [20] and Carl [21] died. What can we tell about Truant’s relationship with his insane mother, Pelefina Heather Lievre, especially from looking at the Whalestoe Institute Letters? Note that the whole colophon is full of misinformation: the first editions all state "2nd edition", with the fictional "privately distributed" edition that the "editors" of the Foreword allude to being the (fictional) "first edition. Danielewski is a fan of the Scottish rock band Biffy Clyro, as they discovered when Danielewski attended one of their shows after they borrowed the title Only Revolutions for their album of the same name.