Antecedents of garmonbozia

Where are the extraterrestrials really coming from?

Within the story, Jack’s problem, which becomes the reader’s, and must have been to some extent the writer’s, too, is that Roy has a theory, and the theory is just too much.

For the Redux newsletter of the Paris Review, I ask whether the demons of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks universe were inspired by a 1982 short story by Norman Rush. Click here to read! And click here to sign up for the Paris Review’s Redux newsletter!