Editing Mark Z. Danielewski (section)

==Career==

===''House of Leaves''===
Danielewski dates the origin of his debut novel ''[[House of Leaves]]'' to 1990 and a story that he wrote after finding out that his father was dying:

<blockquote>1990. My father was head of the USC School of Theater. I was living in New York. Then I got the phone call. The 'Mark your father is dying' phone call. He was in the hospital. Renal failure, cancer. I got on a Greyhound bus and headed west. Over the course of three sleepless nights and three sleepless days I wrote a 100+ page piece entitled Redwood. I remember using a fountain pen. I barely had the change to buy sodas and snacks along the way and there I am scratching out words with this absurdly expensive thing of polished resin and gold. I'd like to say it was a Pelikan, but I don't think that's correct. Another thing I seem to remember: the paper I was writing on had a pale blue cast to it. There was also something about how the pen seemed to bite into the paper at the same time as it produced these lush sweeps of ink. A kind of cutting and spilling. Almost as if a page could bleed. My intention had been to present this piece of writing as a gift to my father. As has been mentioned many times before, my father responded with the suggestions that I pursue a career at the post office. I responded by reducing the manuscript to confetti, going so far as to throw myself a pity parade in a nearby dumpster. My sister responded by returning later to that dumpster, rescuing the confetti, and taping it all back together.<ref name=":9" /></blockquote>

Writing ''House of Leaves'' took ten years, and between 1993 and 1999, Danielewski made a living as a tutor, barista, and plumber. He eventually found a [[literary agent]] in Warren Frazier, who, according to Danielewski, "fell in love with it."<ref name=":9" /> They went to roughly thirty-two publishers before Edward Kastenmeier from Pantheon decided to take on the project.<ref name=":9" /> Small sections of the book were downloadable off the internet before the release of the first edition, and it is said that these sections "circulated through the underbellies of Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and San Francisco, through strip clubs and recording studios, long before publication"{{snd}}though very few were able to experience the book this way initially.<ref name=":12">{{Cite web|url=http://markzdanielewski.info/hol/firsts.html|title=Firsts Magazine Article relating to the First Editions of MZD's House of Leaves and Other Works Related to the Novel|last=Rossa and Biondi|first=Jesse and Lee|date=2001|website=markzdanielewski.info|publisher=VEM|access-date=April 11, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://therumpus.net/2015/05/the-rumpus-interview-with-mark-danielewski/|title=The Rumpus Interview with Mark Z. Danielewski|last=Foley|first=Dylan|date=May 20, 2015|website=therumpus.net|publisher=The Rumpus Book Club|access-date=April 11, 2016}}</ref>

The first edition hardback, which featured special signed inserts, was released on February 29, 2000,<ref name=":11" /> and Pantheon released the hardback and paperback editions simultaneously on March 7, 2000.<ref name=":12" /> The novel went on to win the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award<ref name=":1" /> and gain a considerable [[cult following]].<ref name=":4" /> ''House of Leaves'' has been translated into numerous languages, including Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, and Turkish. It has been taught in universities.

A 2013 ''New York Times'' article featured a conversation between [[Stephen King]] and his son, [[Joe Hill (writer)|Joe Hill]], and made reference to the novel:

<blockquote>Joe and Stephen were having another typical conversation: hashing out what novel could be considered the ''[[Moby-Dick]]'' of horror. 'That one with all the footnotes, they argued – no, not that one, the other one: Mark Danielewski's ''House of Leaves''.'<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/04/magazine/stephen-kings-family-business.html|title=Stephen King's Family Business|last=Dominus|first=Susan|date=2013-07-31|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=2017-01-24}}</ref></blockquote>

On June 18, 2018, Danielewski released a TV pilot script for the novel in the ''House of Leaves'' book club on Facebook.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.facebook.com/groups/HouseOfLeavesBookClub/permalink/2115605215385058/ | title=Mark Z. Danielewski| website=[[Facebook]]}}</ref>

====Collaboration with Poe====
In 2000, Danielewski toured [[Borders (retailer)|Borders]] locations across America with his sister Poe to promote his book and her album [[Haunted (Poe album)|''Haunted'']], which has many elements of ''House of Leaves''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.markzdanielewski.info/borders.html|title=Mark Z. Danielewski and Poe Borders Tour|date=October 2000|website=www.markzdanielewski.info|publisher=VEM|access-date=April 11, 2016|archive-date=September 7, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170907204042/http://markzdanielewski.info/borders.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> The album features Danielewski reading from ''House of Leaves'' on several tracks, as well as audio recordings that Tad Danielewski left for Mark and Poe,<ref>{{Cite news|title=The Haunting Return of Poe|last=Baltin|first=Steve|date=November 2, 2000|work=Rollin Stone Magazine}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=Record Rack|last=Appleford|first=Steve|date=October 29, 2000|work=Los Angeles Times}}</ref> which they found after his death. In 2001, a remake of Poe's song "[[Hey Pretty]] (Drive-By 2001 Mix)," which featured Danielewski reading from ''House of Leaves'', reached #13 on Billboard's Alternative Chart. That summer, Poe and Danielewski spent three months as the opening act for [[Depeche Mode]]'s 2001 North American tour. On this tour, he played [[Madison Square Garden]].<ref name=":11"/> He also composed the song "A Rose Is a Rose,"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/song/a-rose-is-a-rose-mt0007803424|title=A Rose Is a Rose – Poe {{!}} Song Info|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2018-12-12}}</ref> which Poe sang on the ''Lounge-a-Palooza'' compilation album.

===''The Fifty Year Sword''===
After the publication of ''House of Leaves'', Danielewski worked on two projects in tandem: his second novel ''[[Only Revolutions]],'' and a novella,  ''[[The Fifty Year Sword]]'', an "adult ghost story". Danielewski created the book itself with the Dutch artist [[Peter van Sambeek]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/spooky-lit-mark-z-danielewskis-the-fifty-year-sword/|title=Spooky Lit: Mark Z. Danielewski's The Fifty Year Sword|last=Shatkin|first=Elina|date=October 16, 2012|newspaper=Los Angeles Magazine|access-date=April 11, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/219725/the-fifty-year-sword-by-mark-z-danielewski/|title=The Fifty Year Sword|date=October 16, 2012|website=Penguin Random House|publisher=Pantheon|access-date=April 13, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40154.The_Fifty_Year_Sword|title=The Fifty Year Sword|last=Danielewski|first=Mark Z.|website=Goodreads|access-date=April 12, 2016}}</ref> The [[Recto and verso|recto]] pages of the book are empty<ref name=":13">{{Cite book|title=The Fifty Year Sword|last=Danielewski|first=Mark Z. Danielewski|publisher=De Bezig Bij|year=2005|isbn=978-9023418771|location=Amsterdam}}</ref> except for page numbers and van Sambeek's art.<ref name=":13" /> The Dutch publishing house [[De Bezige Bij]] published 1000 first editions on October 31, 2005,<ref name=":13" /> and 1000 second editions on October 31, 2006.<ref name=":13" /> Little is actually known about the inspiration for the story, or the exact time period during which it was written.

====Pantheon edition and theatrical collaborations====
In 2010, Danielewski announced that he would do a stage performance of ''The Fifty Year Sword'', the first of which were on October 31, 2010 at the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater ([[REDCAT]]) in Los Angeles.<ref name=":19">{{Cite web|url=http://www.redcat.org/event/mark-danielewski|title=Mark Z. Danielewski: The Fifty Year Sword|last=Danielewski|first=Mark Z.|date=October 31, 2010|website=www.redcat.org|publisher=REDCAT|access-date=April 11, 2016}}</ref> There were two back-to-back sold-out performances that night.<ref name=":19" /> The production featured music, five people reading the words of the five speakers in the novella (including [[Betsy Brandt]], who played [[Marie Schrader]] on ''[[Breaking Bad]]''),<ref name=":20" /> and shadow casting by Christine Marie.<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/j6-CwyTBnTI Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20160630132043/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6-CwyTBnTI Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6-CwyTBnTI|title=Mark Z. Danielewski's The Fifty Year Sword – 2010|last=Danielewski|first=Mark Z.|date=November 6, 2010|website=www.youtube.com|publisher=youtube.com|access-date=April 11, 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref name=":20">{{Cite web|url=http://laist.com/2010/10/27/mark_z_danielewskis_the_fifty_year.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171105190240/http://laist.com/2010/10/27/mark_z_danielewskis_the_fifty_year.php|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 5, 2017|title=Mark Z. Danielewski's 'The Fifty Year Sword' to Make Its US Debut at REDCAT on Halloween|last=Staff|date=October 27, 2010|website=www.laist.com|publisher=LAist.com|access-date=April 11, 2016}}</ref> On October 31, 2011, Danielewski produced a slightly modified production back to back at REDCAT again.<ref name=":21">{{Cite web|url=http://laist.com/2011/10/27/shadowcaster_christine_marie.php#photo-1|title=Shadowcaster Christine Marie Will Create 40-Foot Shadows During 'The Fifty Year Sword' This Halloween|last=Reverte|first=Michele|date=October 27, 2011|website=www.laist.com|publisher=LAist.com|access-date=April 11, 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140609032853/http://laist.com/2011/10/27/shadowcaster_christine_marie.php#photo-1|archive-date=June 9, 2014}}</ref> There was live music by Partch Ensemble percussionists Matthew Cook and T.J. Troy, as well as  Christine Marie's shadow casting and five actors reading.<ref name=":21" /> The two performances were again sold out.<ref name=":21" />

In 2012, Pantheon released another edition of ''The Fifty Year Sword''. This edition of the book includes more than 80 hand-stitched illustrations, new typography, and textual changes that were developed thanks to the REDCAT productions.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Fifty Year Sword by Mark Z. Danielewski|url=http://knopfdoubleday.com/2012/08/23/the-fifty-year-sword-by-mark-z-danielewski/|website=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group|publisher=Knopf Doubleday|access-date=31 March 2016}}</ref> Pantheon organised a book tour to support it, and thanks to an ARC Grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation,<ref name=":22">{{cite web|last1=Boog|first1=Jason|title=How Mark Z. Danielewski Scored The Fifty Year Sword|url=http://www.adweek.com/galleycat/mark-z-danielewski-christopher-oriley-scored-the-fifty-year-sword/60113|website=GalleyCat|date=16 October 2012 |access-date=31 March 2016}}</ref> the production of ''The Fifty Year Sword'' went to five cities around the United States in conjunction with the book release tour for the Pantheon release of ''The Fifty Year Sword''. These performances, smaller in production than the REDCAT performances, featured different actors at every city, including ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' alumnus [[Darrell Hammond]] in New York.<ref>[https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/3166970-snl-alum-darrell-hammond-has-joined-the-cast-of-the-fifty-year-sword-at SNL Alum Darrell Hammond Has Joined the Cast of THE FIFTY YEAR SWORD at St. Joseph's College on Monday, Oct. 22]. Goodreads. 20 October 2012.</ref> Pianist [[Christopher O'Riley]],  a longtime friend and fan of Danielewski, also toured for these performances.<ref name=":22"/> The final performance of the tour, on October 31, 2012, was another back-to-back, sold-out production at REDCAT.

===''Only Revolutions''===
Danielewski came up with the concept for his second novel, ''Only Revolutions'', while he was touring for ''House of Leaves'' and working on ''The Fifty Year Sword''. He had initially wanted to write something along the lines of a "''House of Leaves, Part 2''", set in China or elsewhere.<ref name=":14">{{Cite web|url=http://www.bookslut.com/features/2006_10_010029.php|title=Interview with Mark Z. Danielewski|last=Goodwin|first=Geoffrey H.|date=October 2006|website=www.bookslut.com|publisher=Book Slut|access-date=April 11, 2016}}</ref> However, his publishers pushed for him to do something more complex, with more colors, typographical intricacies and constraints.<ref name=":14" /> There are seven colors in ''Only Revolutions'',<ref>{{Cite book|title=Only Revolutions|last=Danielewski|first=Mark Z.|publisher=Pantheon Books|year=2006|isbn=978-0375421761|location=United States|url=https://archive.org/details/onlyrevolutions00dani}}</ref> as opposed to four in ''House of Leaves''. The novel also requires constant physical manipulation to read, whereas only certain sections of ''House of Leaves'' require readers to flip the book around.<ref name=":15">{{Cite web|url=http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/wuc/regulated|title=Revolution 2: An Interview with Mark Z. Danielewski|last=Benzon|first=Kiki|date=March 20, 2007|website=www.electronicbookreview.com|publisher=Electronic Book Review|access-date=April 11, 2016}}</ref>

As the work progressed it became obvious to Danielewski that the novel was something of a counterpoint to ''House of Leaves''; in fact, he has said in interviews that ''Only Revolutions'' is centrifugal while ''House of Leaves'' is centripetal.<ref name=":15" /> This aspect of the novel was brought to the forefront in the endpapers in the hardback versions of ''Only Revolutions'', released September 12, 2006,<ref>{{Cite book|title=Only Revolutions: A Novel (hardcover)|last=Danielewski|first=Mark Z.|date=September 2006|publisher=Pantheon Books |isbn=978-0375421761|url=https://archive.org/details/onlyrevolutions00dani}}</ref> as well as the "A Spoiler" published by the French literary magazine ''Inculte'' in 2007.<ref name=":16">{{Cite book|title=A Spoiler|last=Danielewski|first=Mark Z.|publisher=Éditions Inculte|year=2007|isbn=978-2916940021|location=France|pages=173–177}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Revue inculte #14|url=http://www.inculte.fr/catalogue/revue-inculte-14/|website=Inculte|access-date=31 March 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Only Revolutions Commentary: Only Revolutions Spoiler Poster|url=http://howwethink.nkhayles.com/onlyrev/poster/|website=How We Think|publisher=Allen Riddell|access-date=31 March 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151005130508/http://howwethink.nkhayles.com/onlyrev/poster/|archive-date=5 October 2015}}</ref> A paperback edition of the book was published on July 10, 2007,<ref>{{Cite book|title=Only Revolutions: A Novel (paperback)|last=Danielewski|first=Mark Z.|date=July 2007|publisher=National Geographic Books |isbn = 978-0375713903}}</ref> an audiobook featuring music by [[Danny Elfman]] was also released that year,<ref>[https://music.apple.com/us/album/only-revolutions-reel-1/257005439 Only Revolutions (Reel 1)]. iTunes. 30 May 2007.</ref> and an interactive ebook version was released through Apple's iBooks on December 15, 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.apple.com/us/book/only-revolutions/id422526207|title=Only Revolutions: A Novel (ebook)|last=Danielewski|first=Mark Z.|date=December 2015|website=[[iTunes]]|publisher=Apple Itunes|access-date=April 11, 2016}}</ref>

''Only Revolutions'' was a finalist for the 2006 [[National Book Award]] and has been translated into French, Dutch, and German. Like ''House of Leaves'', ''Only Revolutions'' has a cult following and has been taught in universities. In 2013, two graduate students at [[UC Santa Barbara]] created an ''Only Revolutions'' database called Vizor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://vizonlyrevolutions.com/|website=Vizor|publisher=Lindsay Thomas and Dana Solomon|access-date=31 March 2016|title=Vizor}}</ref>

====Collaboration with Biffy Clyro====
Danielewski is a fan of the Scottish rock band [[Biffy Clyro]], as they discovered when Danielewski attended one of their shows after they borrowed the title ''Only Revolutions'' for [[Only Revolutions (Biffy Clyro album)|their album of the same name]].<ref>[http://www.france24.com/en/20100831-2010-08-31-1714-wb-en-culture-Biffy-Clyro-Simon-Neil Simon Neil meets with Eve Jackson]. France 24. 1 September 2010.</ref> They collaborated for a performance on March 2, 2011, which included readings of ''Only Revolutions'' by Danielewski, musical performances by Biffy Clyro, and a Q&A exploring how the book inspired the album.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.spin.com/2011/02/author-danielewski-biffy-clyro-set-spin-benefit/|title=Author Danielewski, Biffy Clyro Set for SPIN Benefit {{!}} SPIN|website=Spin|access-date=2016-04-21|date=2011-02-03}}</ref>  All proceeds went to [[Homeboy Industries]], a Los Angeles-based non-profit that offers training and support to at-risk and formerly gang-involved youth.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.homeboyindustries.org/why-we-do-it/|title=Homeboy Industries – Why We Do It |website=www.homeboyindustries.org|access-date=2016-04-21}}</ref>

===''The Familiar''===
According to Danielewski's comments before his reading/performance of "Parable #8: Z is for Zoo,"<ref name=":17">{{cite web|last1=Danielewski|first1=Mark|title=Parable #8: Z is for Zoo|url=http://sma.sciarc.edu/video/mark-z-danielewski-parable-8-z-is-for-zoo/|website=SCI-Arc Media Archive|publisher=Southern California Institute of Architecture|access-date=22 March 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160316172003/http://sma.sciarc.edu/video/mark-z-danielewski-parable-8-z-is-for-zoo/|archive-date=16 March 2016}}</ref> he began work on ''The Familiar'' in 2006, while he was finishing ''Only Revolutions''. It was originally supposed to be a 27-volume project.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://blackclock.org/issues/2012/issue-15/|title=Black Clock Issue #15|last=Clock|first=Black|date=June 2012|website=www.blackclock.org|publisher=Black Clock|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160322220227/http://blackclock.org/issues/2012/issue-15/|archive-date=March 22, 2016|access-date=April 11, 2016}}</ref><ref name=":17" /> On September 15, 2010, Danielewski announced the work on his message board: "Later this month publishers will receive the first 5 volumes of Mark Z. Danielewski's 27 volume project entitled ''The Familiar''. The story concerns a 12-year-old girl who finds a kitten. ..."<ref>[https://archive.today/20120525162127/http://www.houseofleaves.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6368 At Least This Explains All the Cat T-Shirts]. MZD Message Boards. 15 September 2010.</ref> Danielewski expected the series to take him over a decade to complete. The first installment, ''[[The Familiar, Volume 1: One Rainy Day in May]]'', was released on May 12, 2015.<ref name=":6">{{Cite web|url=http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/213605/the-familiar-volume-1-by-mark-z-danielewski/|title=The Familiar Vol. 1: One Rainy Day in May|last=Random House|first=Penguin|date=May 2016|website=www.penguinrandomhouse.com|publisher=Pantheon|access-date=April 11, 2016}}</ref> ''Volume 2: Into the Forest'' was released on October 27, 2015,<ref name=":7">{{Cite web|url=http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/213606/the-familiar-volume-2-by-mark-z-danielewski/|title=The Familiar Vol. 2: Into the Forest|last=Random House|first=Penguin|date=October 27, 2015|website=www.penguinrandomhouse.com|publisher=Pantheon|access-date=April 11, 2016}}</ref> ''Volume 3: Honeysuckle and Pain'' was published on June 14, 2016,<ref name="Random House">{{Cite web|url=http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/213607/the-familiar-volume-3-by-mark-z-danielewski/|title=The Familiar Vol. 3: Honeysuckle and Pain|last=Random House|first=Pantheon|date=June 14, 2016|website=www.penguinrandomhouse.com|publisher=Pantheon|access-date=April 11, 2016}}</ref> ''Volume 4: Hades'' was released February 7, 2017, and ''Volume 5: Redwood'' completed Season One when it was released on October 31, 2017.<ref name=":23">{{Cite web|url=http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/213608/the-familiar-volume-4-by-mark-z-danielewski/|title=The Familiar, Volume 4|last=Danielewski|first=Mark Z.|date=June 14, 2016|website=penguinrandomhouse.com|publisher=Pantheon|access-date=September 11, 2011}}</ref> On February 2, 2018, Danielewski announced via a Facebook post that ''The Familiar'' had been paused, saying "I must agree with Pantheon that for now the number of readers is not sufficient to justify the cost of continuing."

In a September, 2017 interview on KCRW's ''Bookworm'', Danielewski said the following when discussing ''The Familiar'' as it relates to the progression of literature:

<blockquote>"And that's where I think literature finally has to move; we're very good at giving people a voice but we have not begun, strenuously enough, to give voice to that which will never have a voice: the voice of the waves, the animals, the plants, this world we inhabit"''<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/bookworm/mark-z-danielewski-the-familiar | title=Mark Z. Danielewski: The Familiar| date=2017-09-11}}</ref></blockquote>

===Other work===
==== THROWN ====
From June 5 – September 9, 2015, Danielewski's ''THROWN''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://forums.markzdanielewski.com/forum/other-stuff/out-of-the-way/158790-thrown-by-mzd-at-the-guggenheim|title=THROWN - MZD Forums|date=June 23, 2015|website=MZD Forums}}</ref>'','' a reflection on [[Matthew Barney]]'s ''[[The Cremaster Cycle|CREMASTER 2]]'', was displayed at the [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum|Guggenheim Museum]] during its Storylines exhibition.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://exhibitions.guggenheim.org/storylines/matthew-barney?index=4|title=Storylines – Matthew Barney & Mark Z. Danielewski|date=June 5, 2015|website=Guggenheim}}</ref>

===="A Christmas Eve Carol"====
In December 2018, Danielewski released "A Christmas Eve Carol" as a holiday card for his readers, saying, "I wrote this over twenty years ago and it kept me going when the holidays seemed too dark (and, yeah, they still get dark). Thanks to family and an old friend, I finally finished it or at least managed to come up with this threadbare recording. It's pretty much how I sing it to myself and these days to my little girl. So this year, in lieu of a holiday card with an inky, mischievous cat, please accept these few notes. They've given me comfort. May they give you comfort too ... whatever the hour, whatever the night."<ref>{{Citation|last=MarkZDanielewski|title="A Christmas Eve Carol" by Mark Z. Danielewski|date=11 December 2018 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy5j_5inW1k|access-date=2018-12-12}}</ref>

===Atelier Z===
In 2010, Danielewski formed a group of translators, researchers, graphic designers, professors, students, and other professionals who work directly with him on various aspects of his work. The atelier has had various members, and in 2012<ref name=":18">{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-xpm-2012-oct-27-la-et-cm-mark-danielewski-familiar-20121028-story.html|title=Mark Z. Danielewski: The writer as needle and thread|last=Danielewski|first=Mark Z.|date=October 27, 2012|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|access-date=April 11, 2016}}</ref> it was named Atelier Z. It functions like an artistic [[atelier]] or studio, with apprentice artists assisting to a master artist as they work on their own endeavors.  The members have been listed in the credits of Danielewski's books since 2012.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Fifty Year Sword|last=Danielewski|first=Mark Z.|publisher=Pantheon Books|year=2012|isbn=978-0307907721|location=United States|pages=Credits, Thank Yous|url=https://archive.org/details/fiftyyearsword00dani}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=The Familiar, Volume 1: One Rainy Day in May|last=Danielewski|first=Mark Z.|publisher=Pantheon Books|year=2015|isbn=978-0375714948|location=United States|pages=Credits, Thank Yous}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=The Familiar, Volume 2: Into the Forest|last=Danielewski|first=Mark Z.|publisher=Pantheon Books|year=2015|isbn=978-0375714962|location=United States|pages=Credits, Thank Yous}}</ref>

The atelier seems to have grown directly out of the collaborative work on the Pantheon edition of ''The Fifty Year Sword'',<ref name=":18" /> which coincided with the first ever performances of any of Danielewski's work under his own guise. He has spoken in interviews about a group that was working with him on the stitching/artwork for the first Pantheon edition of ''The Fifty Year Sword'', and there is evidence of some of these people working on the productions of ''The Fifty Year Sword''.<ref name=":18" /> In 2015, the Danielewski and Atelier Z released the first collection of Yarn + Ink, official ''House of Leaves'' and ''The Familiar'' apparel.<ref>[https://www.etsy.com/shop/YarnPlusInk Yarn + Ink)]. Etsy. 27 May 2016.</ref>