Mark Z. Danielewski’s The Familiar: Coming in 27 Volumes from Pantheon
Mark Z. Danielewski, author of cult favorites House of Leaves and Only Revolutions, will once again push publishing boundaries with The Familiar, a serial novel coming from Pantheon in 2014. The novel will be published in 27 volumes, with one new installment coming every three months. Julie Bosman of the New York Times likens this to the book version of buzzy, serialized television shows like Mad Men.
Jack the Ripper Autobiography. Totally want to check this out.
This History.com article is pretty cool too
Written in the 1920s and rediscovered in 2008, a first-person account of what may be the most legendary cold case in history was published today as “The Autobiography of Jack the Ripper.” Its author, whose identity remains a mystery, presents himself as the eponymous serial killer who butchered at least five women in London’s Whitechapel district during the fall of 1888. Has “James Carnac”—who dedicated his manuscript to “the retired members of the Metropolitan Police Force in spite of whose energy and efficiency I have lived to write this book”—finally confessed to his crimes?
My stack of books that are currently on my bedside table. These are all the books I’m hoping to have finished reading by Christmas….so I can use my Christmas money to buy more books.
Obsessed with reading, much? Yep.
