Nor did he know it would be so successful, or that his younger sister, rock musician Poe , would create an album's worth of songs related to her brother's book. The book has been featured in media outlets as diverse as Talk, Gear, Spin and The New York Times Book Review. It was going to be a small run, maybe 8,000 paperback. No book tour. And it just slowly developed.
People read it.
Some people got excited. Bret Easton Ellis gave me this incredible blurb. What an understatement. One can imagine Thomas Pynchon, J.G. Ballard, Stephen King and David Foster Wallace bowing at Danielewski 's feet, choking with astonishment, surprise, laughter, awe. Which sums up the 709-page novel quite nicely.