{"id":50128,"date":"2023-10-27T20:30:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-28T03:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=50128"},"modified":"2023-10-28T11:20:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T18:20:35","slug":"%f0%9f%93%9a-house-of-leaves-by-mark-z-danielewski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/10\/27\/%f0%9f%93%9a-house-of-leaves-by-mark-z-danielewski\/","title":{"rendered":"&#x1f4da; House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1076,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/321fe2bf-029b-40dd-8d2a-0c501616d465&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>58\/2023 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/321fe2bf-029b-40dd-8d2a-0c501616d465\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I first read this just a few years after it came out, when it was very much a &#8220;thing&#8221;. A few years ago I picked up another copy and it&#8217;s been waiting for the right time for a re-read; apparently this October was the right time. I really enjoyed diving back into this. It&#8217;s definitely not something everyone will enjoy, with its multiple narrators, footnotes-within-footnotes, pseudo-academic tone for one through line, and experimental layout. But it has an incredibly effective sense of eerie, creeping dread, and the unusual structure brings the labyrinthine nature of the <span style=\"color:blue;\">house<\/span> into the experience of reading the story. Fascinating and perfect for the Halloween season.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/hol_mzd-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding House of Leaves\" title=\"hol_mzd.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eerie, creeping, labryinthine dread; fascinating and perfect for the Halloween season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2049],"tags":[5808],"class_list":["post-50128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","tag-mark-z-danielewski"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}