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Mark Z. Danielewski

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Mark Z. Danielewski is an American author best known for his books House of Leaves, Only Revolutions, The Fifty Year Sword, The Little Blue Kite, and The Familiar series.

Danielewski studied English Literature at Yale. He then decided to move to Berkeley, California, where he took a summer program in Latin at the University of California, Berkeley. He also spent time in Paris, preoccupied mostly with writing.

In the early 1990s, he pursued graduate studies at the USC School of Cinema-Television. He later served as an assistant editor and worked on sound for Derrida, a documentary based on the life of the Algerian-born French literary critic and philosopher Jacques Derrida.

His second novel, Only Revolutions, was released in 2006. The novel wa
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New Short Story by House of Leaves Author Mark Z. Danielewski

A lifelong interest of mine has been the question of space. How we need it, fear it, want it, find it, make it, make peace with it, measure it, defend it, go to war for it, give it away, deny it, seduce it, cultivate it, think and feel because of it; whether it’s in our minds, our hearts, on the page. It’s a subject that happily sustains enduring conversations with architects, artists and musician Read more of this blog post »
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Published on August 30, 2020 18:39 Tags: house-of-leaves, mark-z-danielewski, the-familiar, theres-a-place-for-you
Average rating: 4.05 · 241,185 ratings · 28,557 reviews · 20 distinct worksSimilar authors
House of Leaves

4.09 avg rating — 212,650 ratings — published 2000 — 67 editions
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The Fifty Year Sword

3.59 avg rating — 6,302 ratings — published 2005 — 18 editions
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Only Revolutions

3.23 avg rating — 5,962 ratings — published 2006 — 34 editions
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One Rainy Day in May (The F...

3.65 avg rating — 4,277 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions
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Tom's Crossing

4.32 avg rating — 3,039 ratings — published 2025 — 5 editions
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The Whalestoe Letters

4.08 avg rating — 3,017 ratings — published 2000 — 14 editions
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Into the Forest (The Famili...

4.18 avg rating — 1,625 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions
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Honeysuckle & Pain (The Fam...

4.35 avg rating — 1,101 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions
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Hades (The Familiar, #4)

4.38 avg rating — 838 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions
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Redwood (The Familiar, #5)

4.45 avg rating — 652 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions
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“Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a premeditated murder of minutes. The violence comes from a combination of giving up, not caring, and a resignation that getting past it is all you can hope to accomplish. So you kill the hour. You do not work, you do not read, you do not daydream. If you sleep it is not because you need to sleep. And when at last it is over, there is no evidence: no weapon, no blood, and no body. The only clue might be the shadows beneath your eyes or a terribly thin line near the corner of your mouth indicating something has been suffered, that in the privacy of your life you have lost something and the loss is too empty to share.”
Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.”
Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.”
Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

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