Mark Z. Danielewski
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Los Angeles
Joined May 2009
Twitter, we just wanted to share a little love for Tumblr. Steady through the storm. This post (Goncharov boots!) apparently sat dormant for a while and now has spawned a meme consisting of expert analysis of a movie that, well, doesn’t exist. Sound familiar? Love us them fonts!
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Twenty years ago today, this happened. The original release date was February 29, pretty perfect, but a day after my birthday also worked. Scores of agents & publishers had rejected the manuscript but Pantheon believed, and so as Galileo never said “Still the house moves . "
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Great time last night talking about renewable energy, the prison industrial complex, and . lemon zest. @noahcent
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Thank you Kelly. ✨.If you haven’t read them, here they are: Three episodes/teleplays for the envisioned HOUSE OF LEAVES television series.
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Over the past two years, two deals nearly came together for HOUSE OF LEAVES (TV show). We're gonna try one more time and that means we need a new team. If you're an agent, manager or lawyer, DM us why you think you're qualified to represent MZD in the entertainment world .
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Thanks everyone for bringing to our attention this measuring scene in YOU SHOULD HAVE LEFT. If it isn’t theft, can anyone point to a scene of a man measuring the inside of his house against the outside of his house in any work other than HOUSE OF LEAVES?
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If you haven’t read them, here they are: Three episodes/teleplays for the envisioned HOUSE OF LEAVES television series.
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Seventh Draft. Due 12/16. Then to copyeditors. Looks like nine drafts should do the trick. Coming (relatively) soon: our dead, holiday cards, release date, title, cover teaser, galley/ARCs, book tour info . Bottom line: the new novel is nearly done.
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This. Is. Happening. Right. Now. Three new episodes for a proposed television series based on the terrifying, award-winning novel HOUSE OF LEAVES.
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‘Curious. Someone is sending ads for an English bookshop that does not exist, in a town that disappeared almost 200 years ago.’
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If a deal isn't in place by Feb., MZD will turn to writing a new book at which point HOUSE OF LEAVES will no longer be available. If you want to see HOL hit the screens, spread the word. If you don't, spread your mirthful bile. 😹 Don't forget to pre-order THE LITTLE BLUE KITE!
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We’re laughing here. Screaming. Crying. I finally know what it feels like to be a sport’s fan.
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Okay, it's my birthday. Okay, I'm not one. But, yeah, now and then when you're surprised with an almond croissant and a candle, and the company is just right, the world can feel like a wondrous one. #happybirthdaytome
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THE FIFTY YEAR SWORD.The perfect time for a re-read. 📖🕯️
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CASA DE FOLHAS now available in Brazil and wherever Portuguese translations are sold. Beautifully done by DarkSide® Books. 📖.⬛️.@DarkSideBooks
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Who's up for a HOUSE OF LEAVES book club in early 2018?. #houseofleaves #markzdanielewski #thefamiliar
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7th Draft done. A few days early. Friday the 13th feels fitting. Off to the copy editor. More details come January. Yes, it's time to get ready but first a good long break. Reading by firelight, setting a place for our ghosts, hearing what they have to say .
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Mid-way through the Sixth Draft with my editor and taking a two-week break to hang with some mountains. And old friends.
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@StephenKing .@StephenKing Thanks, sir. House of Leaves would not have existed without Carrie, Salem's Lot, The Shining, and of course Cujo.
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We noticed HOL is often on the bottom of a stack of books. We wondered why? It is a big book, but not always the biggest. Why people, why?
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Some helpful links . HOUSE OF LEAVES pilot script PDF. ONLY REVOLUTIONS Book Club (begins 7/9). THE FAMILIAR giveaway for new readers. THE FAMILIAR Book Club Q&A transcriptions.
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On this winter weekend:.I must read. I must read. I must read. 📜📚📖
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The wait is over! Download the brand-new HOUSE OF LEAVES pilot script by MZD and share your thoughts in the book club. Pilot: .. Book Club:.. #houseofleaves #markzdanielewski #thefamiliar #pilot #bookclub
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At last! The full-color edition in France! (It only took twenty years.).
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I've started to think that maybe when a book doesn't come back it's because you got it to the right person after all — the one who needed it most.
Did yoga this morning but instead of "clearing my head" during the final resting pose I kept thinking about how I lent my ex-boyfriend my copy of HOUSE OF LEAVES and never got it back.
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Second draft done. Expect something on YouTube in the next week or so.
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The first Night Mind (@NM_NickNocturne) #HouseOfLeavesChallenge video is up! Watch at and enter to win a copy of The Fifty Year Sword by answering a question about the video at
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Final files shipped! THE LITTLE BLUE KITE pre-ordered (I always pre-order one copy of my books). And now . the abyss.
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This. Is. Happening. Right. Now. Three new episodes/teleplays for a proposed television series based on the terrifying, award-winning novel HOUSE OF LEAVES.
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Dragon fire on the hills. Grateful we didn’t return to find ourselves living on Ash Lane. Unfortunately too many weren’t so lucky. 💙
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Three down, six to go. Really the halfway mark for this draft. Strategies were arranged hardest and longest first: character, continuities, tracing progressions etc etc.
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Next month, HOUSE OF LEAVES turns 18, and in that entire time, there's never been a HOUSE OF LEAVES Book Club hosted by MZD. Until now. Whether you've read the book dozens of times or have allways wanted to begin, please join us Feb. 26 - May 31:
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In the face of all the matters,.by a grace misunderstood,.let us gather up our differences.and become a hymn for good. #sayitloud #sayitproud #HAPPYPRIDE🌈
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Starting a new novel. My daughter dictates the opening lines. And you thought ONLY REVOLUTIONS was hard. 😹
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As I’m now in the midst of a new novel, rather than redesign the story for another publication — something I’m not entirely convinced is possible — I’ve decided to release it online. (5/7).
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A big thanks to Night Mind's Nick Nocturne for his thoughtful words about THE LITTLE BLUE KITE. Pre-order your copy today: @NM_NickNocturne #nightmind #houseofleaves #thelittlebluekite
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Ten years ago. Just a reminder (maybe just to myself) to make friends along the way. Even if it’s a friendship that lasts only a minute in the middle of a road running through a desert.
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Yes, I am tremendously biased. Yes, Poe is my sister. Yes, I am still convinced that HAUNTED is one of the greatest concept albums . Read MZD's full post:. #poe #haunted #houseofleaves #markzdanielewski #thefamiliar #beahymnforgood
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New York in the rain. Perfect time to lay low and converse with ghosts. And read. NORTH WOODS currently.
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MZD discusses finishing the 3rd draft of his new novel (a Western with connections to Utah). These videos are intended for those artists who are engaged in long-haul endeavors that take years to complete. ~ Hazel .
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Holiday cards are somehow happening again. If you want ink-splotched paper, DM a snail-mail address. Random drawing next week. And regardless . even in the jaws of Death . wishing you calm and joy.
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Yeah, this happened. Yeah, they’re late. (Maybe too late?) Still, about a dozen are keen to get to you. DM us your name and address and we’ll randomly select the lucky ones. My 2023 resolution: get holiday cards out on time.
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Thank you @66thand2nd for this beautiful Italian edition of #houseofleaves! May we meet someday in Rome treasuring all we have and not on the beach measuring all we’ve lost. #casadifoglie #markzdanielewski
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Have five years already passed? I remember when she was just a few weeks old and I’d slept maybe a few hours in those few weeks and I was bleary eyed in some aisle looking for diapers and a mother there —
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This is a fast read. Mack is funny, her capacity to explain clear and enthralling. No question if she’d been my teacher in high school I’d be an astrophysicist now. She makes understanding the most complex questions seem possible. Isn’t that what all great teachers do?@AstroKatie
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The Quarter Inch Hoodie. Cozy pullover with large front pocket. Extra thick 100% Cotton fabric. Featuring quotes from all your favorite characters from House of Leaves. Runs large, order one size down. or
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The End of the Sixth Draft. Ignorance & Endurance. Soufflés & Butterfly. Editor, Holiday Cards & the Dead. These videos are intended for those artists who are engaged in long-haul endeavors that take years to complete. ~ Hazel.
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Where’ve you been? Read them now! 3 Teleplays for a proposed television series based on the award-winning novel HOUSE OF LEAVES. Here’s an easy way to get your hands on all three:
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For those in the Philadelphia area. Free and open to all✨. Wednesday March 27, 6 P.M. ✨Bryn Mawr College.✨Goodhart Hall.✨Music Room
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No apology necessary! Thanks for the smile. >^. ^<.
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You kept asking, so we finally did it. Small batch HOUSE OF LEAVES hoodies, hats, shirts and bags. Stay tuned. http://t.co/E08NATvqRc.
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Like father, like daughter: inspecting every strawberry for her party. Hard to believe it’s one year this Saturday. As one god-disguised-as-a-parent told me in Target: “The days are long, the years are short.” Still grateful for those words.
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The big Friday night. No movies, no shows. Just something I haven’t read since I was fifteen. (Has a book ever had on its cover SOON TO BE A MINOR MOTION PICTURE? 😹)
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Only on Patreon. This Friday. REMINDER: Don’t forget to join the Facebook House of Leaves Book Club for discussions about the new episodes. Or not. Discussions in the dark work too.
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If you’ve been blissfully hiding under a rock we thought you should know there are three episodes/teleplays for a proposed television series based on HOUSE OF LEAVES. Here’s an easy way to get your hands on all three episodes/teleplays:
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Kids like me will know they’re not alone and that there’s a way beyond dream-killing feelings. Whenever I give a copy to friends who don’t have kids, I always say the same thing: "Read it to your younger self.” Though your older self will probably appreciate it too. (cont.)
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“‘the world there was “‘constantly “‘severed.”.📖 The Fifty Year Sword
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There are stacks of read books on my table that deserve some mention for all they do, but the longer I wait the more impossible the task seems. That being said, here’s to starting impossible tasks.
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(cont.) MZD now has the first three episodes written. The pilot is brand new. As MZD said: "The pilot posted online was at about 10%. This is at about 65%. I'll likely hire a small writers' room to finish the season. We'll find a gifted director to co-run the show."
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New Short Story by MZD COMING AUGUST 28! Check back next week for details and a link to join the month-long story club. Available exclusively on
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Welcome! A short story to start us off: in late 2017, I was approached by a Big Streaming Company about developing a multiple-season version of HOUSE OF LEAVES. And, get this — yes, you heard it here first — I considered it.
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For those of you who sent along your dead: Thank you. It wasn’t easy for you. It was hard for us. Lots of tears here reading such brave words so beautifully arranged on behalf of cherished names now cherished by us.
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Well, you can bet this: not gonna happen. Big Streaming Company bet and lost. But in walking away, I lost too. Nonetheless, while muddling through all those lawyerly pet tricks, I decided to take a couple of weeks and write the pilot on my own.
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And suddenly the third draft is done. And soon the beard will be gone too. 4/9 5/9 6/9 7/9 8/9 9/9 .
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Some people reflect light, some deflect it, you by some miracle, seem to collect it. Page 604. House of Leaves.
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Holiday cards. Ink-splotched paper. And, yup, you’ll likely see the new book before it’s holiday-card time again. If that ain’t a tease. But maybe a little teasin is okay if it’s just to say hello and say it’s gonna be okay. Name & address here.Atelierzcustomerservice@gmail.com
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This. Is. Happening. Right. Now. Three new episodes/teleplays for a proposed television series based on the terrifying, award-winning novel HOUSE OF LEAVES.
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