Books by Mark Z. Danielewski
Only Revolutions
by Mark Z. Danielewski
A ‘360 degree’ book, part novel, part poem, and aimed at the aficionado.
“This book is the nucleic text in this field. It might be the most meta book that there is. It is an iconic Gen-X novel, written throughout the last half of the 1990s and published in 2000. Johnny Truant, a young man in Los Angeles, is typing pages in the style of diary entries, in the first person. That is the first layer of story that you’re seeing as a reader. Johnny discovers that his neighbor is dead, and when he ventures into his neighbor’s apartment, he finds a trunk filled with pages and pages of a thesis, with faux footnotes, very much like in Pale Fire. The footnotes are basically innumerable, and the very text itself, at a layout level, starts to get peculiar. Words appear to fall off the page as you read them.” Read more...
Arianna Reiche, Novelist
Interviews where books by Mark Z. Danielewski were recommended
The Best Ergodic Fiction, recommended by Arianna Reiche
The best fiction doesn’t have to be straightforward, and some novels contain clever devices to make the reader complicit in the story itself. Arianna Reiche, lecturer in metafiction at City, University of London, recommends five gamified novels that subvert our ideas of how fiction works.
The Best Electronic Literature, recommended by Jessica Pressman
When we think of an ebook, we think of a printed book delivered in electronic form. But it can be so much more than that. Here, literary scholar Jessica Pressman talks us through the the rise of electronic literature—books that are composed not just of words, but take advantage of all the tools that a digital medium has to offer.
