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Powell's Books Lost blog: Through the Looking Glass

2007-05-26T20:43:03Z

This is it – this year's final Powell's Books Lost blog post for this season. The episode was a mindbender, pulling together threads from previous episodes and previous seasons, knotting them up, and leaving new ends of narrative trails to follow...

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Powell's Books Lost blog: Greatest Hits

2007-05-18T20:23:34Z

The Powell's Books Lost blog post for "Greatest Hits" is up, and there's a lot more going on than meets the eye. It looks like we have some evidence that every time Des saved Charlie, he not only changed the future, but the past and present as we...

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Powell's Books Lost blog: The REAL Man Behind the Curtain

2007-05-12T03:32:42Z

Now we've finally seen Jacob, and I've posted a column about it at my Powell's blog. The real question at this point is if Locke actually did or didn't see that strange old man. The biblical overtones are getting interesting. In Genesis, Jaco...

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Powell's Books Lost blog: The Brig

2007-05-05T18:21:21Z

"The Brig" was the first episode written by Darlton Cuselof we've seen in a long time, and it was well worth the wait. The post is up at the Powell's Books Lost blog, and there's a lot there about war and slavery. It all comes from Locke and Coo...

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Powell's Books post: D.O.C.

2007-04-28T18:26:58Z

The discussion on the "D.O.C." Lost blog post at Powell's Books ramped up in no time. This "D.O.C." was more of an extension of "Catch-22," and carries over many of the book's themes, as well as some by the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin's "God and t...

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Powell's Books post: Catch-22

2007-04-22T00:54:17Z

There's a great discussion developing on my Powell's Books Lost blog about the latest episode, "Catch-22." I dig Heller's book; it's creepy and funny, and the writers did a fine job of incorporating elements of its narrative into this episode -- ...

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Powell's Books post: One of Us

2007-04-13T19:23:19Z

The blog post for the latest Lost episode, "One of Us," is now up at Powell's Books. The symbol that appears on the tree actually means a lot in this episode. Yeah, it looks like a Russian letter, but it also looks very much like the symbol from...

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Cheers, Doc!

2007-04-06T00:26:56Z

Entertainment Weekly's Doc Jensen just gave my Lost blog a nice plug: In my humble opinion, the best Lost blogger is a bookish fellow by the name of J. Wood, author of ''Living Lost.'' Wood specializes in deconstructing the literary references i...

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Powell's Books post: Left Behind

2007-04-06T00:13:13Z

My Powell's Books blog column for the latest Lost episode, “Left Behind,” is now live. This was a subtle episode, despite the girl fight and Smokey; there were a number of little subtle narrative links across the episode itself and back to previ...

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Powell's Books post: Exposé

2007-03-30T21:05:33Z

After a couple of technical snags, my Powells.com blog post for the latest Lost episode is up, Lost Exposed. I had a couple extra meetings on Thursday and couldn't get to writing until later in the afternoon, and since I included a image of some g...

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