House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

The Pleasure of the Text

Show Notes.

Poe
Anne Decatur Danielewski, stage name Poe, is a musician who rose to celebrity in the mid to late 1990s, fusing jazz, rock, folk, hip-hop and electronica elements, with intimate lyrical compositions. She has released two albums, the first in 1995, titled Hello, and the second album in 2000, Haunted. This album is inspired by her brother’s debut novel House of Leaves, and by the discovery of a box of tapes left behind by their late father, film director Tad Danielewski. This album contains pieces of both.

Leslie S. Klinger
Leslie S. Klinger is the editor of the three-volume collection of the short stories and novels, The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes. Since the 1960s, the study of the rich fantastic literature of the Victorian writers has been Klinger's consuming passion. He has written dozens of articles on Sherlockiana, published 20 books on Sherlock Holmes, and regularly teaches UCLA extension courses on "Sherlock Holmes and His World" and "Dracula and His World."
Vladimir Nabokov
The late Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), was a Russian-American novelist, translator, poet, and entomologist. He wrote his first nine books in Russian between 1926 to 1938 and achieved international acclaim after moving to the US, where he started writing his works in English. Nabokov's 1955 novel Lolita ranked fourth on Modern Library's list of the 100 best 20th-century novels in 2007 and is considered one of the greatest 20th-century works of literature. Nabokov's Pale Fire, published in 1962, was ranked 53rd on the same list. Other works from Nabokov include:

• Invitation to a Beheading
• Pnin
• Despair
• King, Queen, Knave
• Lance

You Should Have Left
You Should Have Left (2020) is an American psychological horror film written and directed by David Koepp, based on the 2017 book of the same name by Daniel Kehlman, starring Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried. In the film, a former banker, his actress wife, and their spirited daughter book a vacation at an isolated modern home in the Welsh countryside where nothing is quite as it seems.

Margaret Atwood
Reading is a rewarding experience, especially so when the work is Margaret Atwood’s. It’s truly rare to read a piece where you can feel the fun being had by the writer on the other end, and that was apparent all through Murder in the Dark, a collection of Atwood’s short stories, from vignettes, to much longer works. If you would like to join us, you can buy the book here and here.