“Making the pilot episode, we knew we were doing something different, must-see TV, but I don’t think anyone involved thought it was going to continue past a one-off. David Lynch comes to television? The inmates are going to take over the asylum! The plan was to make a movie of the week and then go home. But then it was screened – and everybody was stunned at how good it was.”
– Kyle MacLachlan who played FBI agent Dale Cooper
Broadcast in the United States between April 1990 and June 1991, Twin Peaks was a television phenomenon. The series created by David Lynch and Mark Foster received 18 Emmy nominations and gained a cult following around the word. Twin Peaks is seen by many as a creative turning point in US television drama and a foundation for the ‘golden age of television‘.
A new project seeks to explore the ways in which the program influenced and inspired a generation of writers. According to the official website ‘The Twin Peaks Project invites these authors to write about their experience with the show, its influence, and its impact. The result—everything from critique to memoir, personal essay to poetry—will be published on participating online journals and blogs.’
The project is the brainchild of Shya Scanlon, a New York-based author whose forthcoming novel The Guild of St. Cooper (Dzanc Books, 2015) is about an obscure author writing a revisionist history of Seattle and features giant rhododendrons, space aliens and the familiar face of Special Agent Dale Cooper.
For details on how to contribute to the project visit twinpeaksproject.com/participate/.
Twin Peaks season one and two are available on Netflix, Hulu and DVD.
