* House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski is a work of fiction revolving around the discovery of a manuscript critiquing a documentary called The Navidson Record and its effects on both its author and editor.

* House of Leaves, a novel by Mark Z. Danielewski

His use of it has inspired other authors ' works ( e. g. Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves ).

* Mark Z. Danielewski's novel " House of Leaves " centers around a house containing an infinite number of rooms.

" The album also dovetails with themes and concepts from her brother Mark's postmodern novel House of Leaves ; the CD and the book were released simultaneously.

House of Leaves, the tale of a man who finds a manuscript telling the story of a documentary that may or may not have ever existed, contains multiple layers of plot.

Mark Z. Danielewski, born March 5, 1966 in New York City, New York, is an American author, best known for his debut novel House of Leaves ( 2000 ).

House of Leaves, Danielewski's innovative first novel, has continued to gain a global cult following and won numerous awards, including the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award.

In 2000, Danielewski toured with his sister across America at Borders Books and Music locations, promoting Poe ’ s album Haunted, which reflects elements of House of Leaves.

* March 2000: House of Leaves

House of Leaves has been described as a " satire of academic criticism.

House of Leaves begins with a first-person narrative by Johnny Truant, a Los Angeles tattoo parlor employee and professed unreliable narrator.

This first happens when Zampanò writes that the hallway is in the western wall ( House of Leaves 57 ), directly contradicting an earlier page where the hallway is mentioned to be in the northern wall ( House of Leaves 4 ).

The sound of a passing truck causes her to glance away " ( House of Leaves 11 – 12 ).

For example, several times Zampanò cites an actual Time-Life book, Planet Earth: Underground Worlds ( House of Leaves 125 ).

The reader also slowly learns more about Johnny's childhood living with an abusive foster father, engaging in violent fights at school, and of the origin of Johnny's mysterious scars ( House of Leaves, p. 505 ).

He even has hallucinations that parallel those of Zampanò and members of the house search team when he senses "… something inhuman …" behind him ( House of Leaves 26 ).

Later in his life, he moves to the eponymous house ( located in the southeastern Virginia countryside ), in an effort to find " place to drink lemonade and watch the sun set ", a place to " once and for all stay in and explore the quieter side of life " ( House of Leaves, p. 9 ).

This section is referred to in the book as a " sometimes funny, sometimes bizarre history of thoughts passing away in the atrocity of that darkness " ( House of Leaves 252 ).

Throughout the entirety of House of Leaves ( even including the cover and publishing information ), the word " house " is colored blue ( gray for non-color editions of the book and light gray for red editions ), as in < span style =" color :# 6086d1 ;"> house </ span >, and is, in many places in the book, offset from the rest of the text in different directions at different times.

Red and full-color editions of House of Leaves have the word Minotaur and all struck passages colored red.

The House communications subcommittee is expected to report out a good bill calling for the states to match federal funds.

Hank Foiles, backed up by Frank House who will be within calling distance in the minors, make up better second line catching than the Birds had all last year, but Gus is still that big man you need when you start talking pennant.

His advisers in the Politburo ( White House ) are engaged in a great struggle of opinions, so he is not always consistent.

Not only is Mr. Frelinghuysen a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, but he is the grandson of the man who was instrumental in opening relations between the United States and Korea, Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, Secretary of State in the administration of Chester A. Arthur.

She said, `` My dear, do you know what Kent House is ''??

He is most effective in the ordinary business of the House, and in the legislative accomplishments of this session, he easily rose to great occasion -- even at the height of unpleasantness and exciting legislative struggle -- and as the Nation witnessed these contests, he rose, even as admitted by those who differed with him, to the proportions of a hero and a noble partisan.

For what Sam Rayburn's life in this House teaches us is that loyalty and character are not divisive and there is no such thing as being for your country and neglecting your district.

Sam Rayburn is one of the greatest American public figures in the history of our country and I consider that I have been singly honored in the privilege of knowing Sam Rayburn and sharing with him the rights and obligations of a Member of the House of Representatives in the Congress of the United States.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act of July 3, 1952 ( 66 Stat. 328 ) as amended ( 42 U.S.C. 1952-1958 ), is further amended to read as follows: Section 1.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to make or cause to be made a study covering -- ( 1 )

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to establish and maintain a program of stabilization payments to small domestic producers of lead and zinc ores and concentrates in order to stabilize the mining of lead and zinc by small domestic producers on public, Indian, and other lands as provided in this Act.

`` It is as though '', I said on the historic three-hour, coast-to-coast radio broadcast which I bought ( following Father Coughlin and pre-empting the Eddie Cantor, Manhattan Merry-go-round and Major Bowes shows ) `` That Man in the White House, like some despot of yore, insisted on reading my diary, raiding my larder and ransacking my lingerie!!

It is the similarity between Estella's hands and Molly's ( `` The action of her fingers was like the action of knitting '' ) that provides Pip with a vital clue to the real identity of both and establishes a symbolic connection between the underworld of crime and the genteel cruelty of Satis House.

Pip imagines how Estella would look down upon Joe's hands, roughened by work in the smithy, and the deliberate contrast between her white hands and his blackened ones is made to symbolize the opposition of values between which Pip struggles -- idleness and work, artificiality and naturalness, gentility and commonness, coldness and affection -- in fact, between Satis House and the forge.

( `` It is always of sorrow to me when I find people who neither know nor understand music '', he declared not long ago in proposing that White House prizes be awarded for music and art.

But it soon became clear that the search for eighteenth-century furniture ( which Mrs. Kennedy feels is the proper period for the White House ) must be pursued in places other than government storage rooms.

The American Institute of Interior Designers is redecorating the White House library.

One of the offices slated for reconstruction is the aged Court of Claims, diagonally across the street from the White House.

The Department's constant fight with the House for money is a polite minuet compared with its periodic bloody engagements with the Senate.

Rep. Mac Barber of Commerce is asking the House in a privilege resolution to `` endorse increased federal support for public education, provided that such funds be received and expended '' as state funds.

A House committee which heard his local option proposal is expected to give it a favorable report, although the resolution faces hard sledding later.

The White House is taking extraordinary steps to check the rapid growth of juvenile delinquency in the United States.

In the House, the Southern-Republican coalition is expected to make another major stand in opposition to the Administration's housing bill, while more jockeying is expected in an attempt to advance the aid-to-education bill.