MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI lives in Los Angeles.
Praise for Mark Z. Danielewski’s The Familiar
“The series at times recalls Ulysses, Infinite Jest,
and Cloud Atlas in its complexity, structure, and echoing
parallel narratives. . . . The literary world is stronger for
having boundary pushers like Danielewski.” —Ryan
Vlastelica, The A.V. Club
“So perfectly relatable, so beautifully rendered. . . . So, so
worth it in the way that reading [The Familiar] rewires your
brain.” —Jason Sheehan, NPR Books
“Graphic design works in tandem with storytelling in this
fascinating, ongoing, humongous experiment with form and the
experience of reading.” —John Freeman, The Boston Globe
“[The Familiar] is a ‘remediation’ of television series
like Twin Peaks and Breaking Bad . . .
resembles Altman-inflected movies . . . or the time and
place-skipping novels of David Mitchell. . . . I’m definitely in.”
—Tom LeClair, The New York Times Book Review
“Danielewski has somehow created a format, an experience, that
mimics the best of the digital future we’ve been told
to expect, while exploiting the best of print, that which
we’ve been told to mourn. . . . The Familiar is a tour de
force.” —Allison K. Hill, Los Angeles Daily News
“[Danielewski is] the most aggressively avant-garde popular writer
working today. . . . The Familiar is as much a narrative
story as it is an experiment in visual and typographical forms. . .
. It all adds up to something between a graphic novel and a
novel-novel.” —Cady Drell, Newsweek
“The author is innovating wildly not only with text but also with
narrative flow, structure, and multiplicity of meaning. Loose,
imagistic words are followed by tightly layered prose and pictures;
this varied density creates a deeply nuanced reading experience
that works. A must-read.” —Library Journal (starred
review)
“A marvel of postmodern storytelling.” —Kirkus Reviews
“This is a book you cannot miss—because there’s simply nothing else
like it.” —Jefferson Grubbs, Bustle
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