You know how most authors tend to follow rules and traditions when it comes to writing? Mark Z. Danielewski doesn’t do that. I think he is one of the most unconventional authors I’ve heard of. He takes a story but presents it in a way that is both unique and compelling… No wonder he likes Mr. Robot.....Is that why I talk like this? To show them what the book is like? Figures he’d rip it off. He does it to me all the time….

His best-known novel, House of Leaves, is a great example. He just doesn’t tell the story of a weird house, he...