The Lost Book Club: Everything that Rises Must Converge
It’s hard to believe that Lost will begin its final season with tonight’s premiere. Even harder to believe I’ve stuck with the commitment I made at the end of Season 2—way back in May 2006—to read and...
View ArticleThe Lost Book Club: Fear and Trembling
I didn’t read it. Back when I started the Lost Book Club and decided to read all the books shown and referenced on Lost, I made a decision to focus (mostly) on the fictional/literary works and leave...
View ArticleThe Lost Book Club: Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Salman Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories is the book Desmond was reading on the plane in the Season 6 opener “LA X.” The scene occurred in the alternate reality timeline, and the book provides...
View ArticleThe Lost Book Club: Deep River
Shusaku Endo’s Deep River appears in the Season 6 Episode of Lost, “Sundown.” Now that Lost is winding down, I can look at all the books that have appeared on the show and find myself amazed by how...
View ArticleThe Lost Book Club: The Chosen
One of my favorite episodes from Season 6 of Lost was “Dr. Linus,” which was the first one that made me care about what was happening in the mirror reality for its own sake. Any episode that centers on...
View ArticleThe Lost Book Club: Notes from Underground
Sometimes details can hang up a whole story; for instance, in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Notes from Underground, I could never quite get past the fact that the unnamed narrator, the underground man, was a...
View ArticleThe LA Times Asks Me About the LOST Books
Last week someone from the LA Times asked to interview me about the Lost book club project I’ve been doing on this blog for the past few years. The article is here, and she even included some of my...
View ArticleSome LOST Theorizin’ Before “The End”
It’s hard to believe Lost will be ending on Sunday. I’ve been blogging the books that have appeared on the show and their connections with Lost for four years so I figured I should post a final theory...
View ArticleLOST – Reflections on “The End”
Seeing Jack dying alone in the jungle in the same spot where he awakened in the pilot was heartbreaking, but in one of the best moments I’ve ever seen on TV or in movies, out of the thicket comes...
View ArticleOne More Post about LOST
LOST ended a little over 3 years ago and with it much fodder for this blog and my personal reading lists. It was unique in television, I think, because the producers negotiated a fixed end date for the...
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Some Recent Publications
I’m very happy to announce that my micro-chapbook Six October Stones is published by Origami Poems Project. Like all of Origami Poems Project’s micro-chapbooks, this collection of six short poems woven...
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