More stories

  • Audrey smokes in twin peaks high school bathroom
    in

    Working to Solve for X in Twin Peaks Episode 4

    There is a surplus of fan-favorite quotable lines in Twin Peaks Episode 4, and I think the chewiest is when Audrey Horne tells Donna Hayward, “In real life, there is no algebra.” There is a telling irony in this quip. On the surface, Audrey’s articulating with all the confidence of a high school teenager how […] More

  • Lissie live at the roadhouse
    in , ,

    “It’s Part of the Unknown”: An Interview with Lissie

    On a late-August afternoon Lissie was kind enough to take time for coffee with me out on the porch of her northeast Iowa homestead. About Twin Peaks and creativity, perhaps what David Lynch calls the Art Life, she was enthusiastic, warm, amiable, and reflective. Our conversation found its own meandering flow, even pausing at one […] More