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Mark z danielewski5/25/2023 ![]() ![]() For the last two Halloweens, he’s turned the book into a performance piece with actors and shadow puppetry, and is appearing again at the REDCAT theater downtown on Oct. With “The Fifty Year Sword,” a ghost story for grown-ups first published in Holland in a limited run of just 1,000 copies in 2005, and another 1,000 in 2006, Danielewski, 46, has opened himself up to collaboration. 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). And loose threads, physical and metaphoric, were everywhere. ![]()
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