Ever since Twin Peaks aired on television in 1990, fans and critics have been discussing who killed Laura Palmer, what the ceiling fan means, and wondering when that gum we like is going to come back in style. But in Twin Peaks: Through the Red Curtain, it is the cast and crew that get to do the talking about what it was like to work with David Lynch and Mark Frost on one of the most influential series of all time. On-screen stars Kyle MacLachlan, Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise, Pi...

In 1997, David Lynch released Lost Highway starring Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty and Natasha Gregson Wagner. The film came and went and critics famously panned the film. While it did span a top 10 soundtrack, the film has largely been forgotten until now. In 2022, the film was remastered and rereleased. Film lovers, Lynch fans and critics started to take notice.Author Scott Ryan, Fire Walk With Me: Your Laura Disappeared, The Blue Rose magazine...

"I feel like Scott Ryan could have written this directly to me and others in our generation who have basically 'given up' on movies. It is at once tribute and eulogy, so bittersweet." - Screenwriter Helen Childress (Reality Bites)"The nineties are lucky to have Scott Ryan." - Actress Natasha Gregson Wagner (Two Girls and a Guy, Lost Highway)Ah, the nineties. Movies were something in those days. We're talking about a decade...

"Where we're from, the birds sing a pretty song and there's always music in the air."When author Scott Ryan (Fire Walk With Me: Your Laura Disappeared, The Last Days of Letterman) heard those words on the television series Twin Peaks in 1990, he wanted to live there as well. Problem was, most of the music that played in Twin Peaks was not released. Only one soundtrack came out from the series, and one from a film. It wasn't until 2011 until director David Lynch ...

On May 20, 2015, David Letterman said, "Thank you and goodnight." The Foo Fighters sang "Everlong," and Late Show with David Letterman ended its run. The final six weeks of the series had guests like Julia Roberts, George Clooney, Oprah Winfrey, and the Obamas. All names you have heard many times. But it was the people behind the scenes who pulled off these twenty-eight unforgettable episodes of late-night television.Author Scott Ryan conducted over twenty interviews with ...

In the spring of 1987, over sixty million viewers tuned in to watch Maddie Hayes (Cybill Shepherd) and David Addison (Bruce Willis) "get together" in one of the most famously controversial scenes in television history on Moonlighting, ABC's groundbreaking series about an epically mismatched pair of private detectives . Two years later, the show was canceled due to low ratings. What happened? In Moonlighting: An Oral History, author Scott Ryan (The Last Days of Letterm...

Australia has enjoyed an unprecedented period of prosperity in recent decades, yet despite this there has been a widely reported loss of faith in politics and institutions. With the COVID-19 pandemic, Australia faces its most significant economic and social challenges in decades. How is politics placed to deal with these challenges and what is the capacity of our key institutions to do so? What are the lessons and warnings from history?In Challenging Politics, long-time po...

David Lynch has been accused for decades of sexism and even misogyny in his work, due largely to frequent depictions of violence against women. Yet others see in Lynch's work the deification of the female, and actresses like Laura Dern and Naomi Watts jump at every opportunity to work with him. "He is the master of the juxtaposition of the creepy and the sweet, the sexual and the chaste," wrote W's Lynn Hirschberg. "And at the heart of this tense, intriguing friction, you will always find ...

Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime to Panama.Discover popular and off the beaten track experiences from spotting exotic wildlife like giant anteaters and jaguars on a tour of the wild and remote Parque Nacional Darién, to exploring the coastal beltway, La Cinta Costera, on foot or by bike, and relaxing on Saboga Island's beautiful White Beach.Build a trip to remem...

Smart, witty, quirky, loquacious, female-centric, drenched in pop-culture references -- Amy Sherman-Palladino's singular TV voice has won her legions of fans and critical appreciation over the past two decades, thanks to shows like Gilmore Girls, Bunheads, and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Sherman-Palladino - the first woman ever to win Emmy Awards for both comedy writing and directing in a single year - may write about different decades and milieus, but her sensibility is u...

THE 2026 AMERICAN LEGACY BOOK AWARDS FINALISTFIRST PLACE PUBLIC MEMOIR FOR THE BOOK FEST AWARDS 2025The Massillon Tigers, one of the most envied high school football teams in the nation from one of the most high school football rabid towns in the country, had gone fifty-three years without winning a state championship when they took the field against the Hoban Knights on the brisk night of November 30, 2023, a date no one in ...

In "The Tragedy of Fotheringay," Mary Monica Maxwell-Scott crafts a compelling historical narrative that interrogates the tumultuous events surrounding the trial and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots. The novel is characterized by its rich, lyrical prose and deep psychological insight into the motivations and inner lives of its characters. Set against the backdrop of late 16th-century England, Maxwell-Scott employs a vivid, evocative style that captures the political machinations and perso...