Editing Mark Z. Danielewski (section)

===''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>