And, after making a $1 million-plus deal for 10 installments of “The Familiar,” the 27-volume series he’s in the middle of writing, he would reveal only this bit of plot description to the media: “It’s about a 9-year-old girl who finds a kitten.” He purposely misspelled words to play with the malleability of language. He had readers of his mind-bending follow-up, the National Book Award finalist “Only Revolutions,” flip the volume upside-down to track the dual narratives.
That’s not what many have come to expect from Danielewski, who is so famously controlling about his work that he typeset his debut novel, the metaphysical horror story “House of Leaves,” at Pantheon’s New York offices (to ensure, for example, that the word “house” would appear each time in chroma-key blue). With the release of the series, the New York Times declared Danielewski "America's foremost literary Magus." His latest release, The Little Blue Kite, is in bookstores now.And loose threads, physical and metaphoric, were everywhere. Between 2015-2017, Pantheon released five volumes of The Familiar, each an 880-page installment about a 12-year-old girl who finds a kitten and sets off a chain reaction with global consequences. In 2015, Danielewski's THROWN, a reflection on Matthew Barney's CREMASTER 2, was displayed at the Guggenheim Museum during its Storylines exhibition. His books have been translated into multiple languages, and his work has been the focus of university classes and literary events.
He is the author of the award-winning and bestselling novel House of Leaves, National Book Award finalist Only Rev oluti ons, and the novella The Fifty Year Sword, which was performed on Halloween three years in a row at REDCAT. Danielewski was born in New York City and lives in Los Angeles.
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