LiL = LOST in Literature
Golden Spiral Media’s We Have To Go Back podcast
September 2014 marks the 10th anniversary of the LOST premiere and people are making all sorts of whacky plans. There is a group of fans organizing a reunion party in Hawaii and I know a lot of people who are going. I have not made up my mind yet. In the meantime, I was asked to assist in a LOST rewatch by providing a literary analysis each week for a podcast Golden Spiral Media is doing.
We Have To Go Back: A LOST Revisited Podcast is hosted by Darrell and his wife Kari, who watch two episodes each week and discuss memories, theories, and concepts the show brought up. It is very spoilery, definitely not for anyone looking to go through the show for a first time. But for those who love LOST and are looking for an excuse to rewatch (or at least drum up some memories!), this is a podcast for you.
My segment is near the end, after the episode discussions. Darrell gives me about 10 minutes each week to deliver my analysis and I usually soak up every last one of those minutes. Below you’ll find a running list of the books I’ve read and discussed, as well as any blog posts associated with them (I only recently started publishing posts week-to-week). A sample audio segment of Lord of the Flies and more information can be found here.
UPDATE 5/11/2014
I will be attending the 2014 Lost event in Hawaii! If you will be there, look me up.
UPDATE 9/25/2014
Back from Hawaii! Here are the posts from my experiences:
- Day 1: Hawaiian Convention Center, Ala Wai Canal, Waikiki Yacht Club
- Day 2: Valley of the Temples, Moli’i Pond, Waimea Valley Waterfalls, YMCA Camp Erdman and Mokule’ia Beach Park
LIST OF ANALYSES
- The Island Aldous Huxley
- Essay Concerning Human Understanding John Locke
- Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland Lewis Carroll
- Watership Down Richard Adams
- Solitary Jean Jacques Rousseau
- The Mysterious Island Jules Verne
- The Stand Stephen King
- Moby Dick Herman Melville
- Lord of the Flies William Golding
- A Wrinkle In Time Madeline L’Engle
- Revisiting “The Monster”
- Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
- The Third PolicemanFlann O’Brien
- The Outsiders S.E. Hinton & The Pearl John Steinbeck
- The Third Policeman Flann O’Brien
- Epic of Gilgamesh unknown
- After All These Years Susan Isaacs
- Josiah 1 Kings 13 & 2 Kings 23
- Bad Twin Gary Troup
- An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Ambrose Bierce
- The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Julius Caesar William Shakespeare
- Dirty Work Stuart Woods
- The Odyssey Homer
- A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
- Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
- To Kill A Mockingbird Nelle Harper Lee
- Laughter in the Dark Vladimir Nobokov
- Stranger in a Strange Land Robert A. Heinlein
- Ishmael Daniel Quinn
- Evil Under the Sun Agatha Christie
- Left Behind by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
- Catch 22 Joseph Heller
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain
- The Moon Pool Abraham Merritt
- Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There Lewis Carroll
- Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
- The Invention of Morel Aldofo Bioy Casares
- VALIS Philip K. Dick
- Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut
- The Tempest Shakespeare
- Mount Analogue Rene Daumal
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum
- A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
- The Little Prince Antoine Saint-Exupery
- Turn of the Screw Henry James
- Various Works Jeremy Bentham
- A Separate Reality Carlos Castenada
- Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
- Lancelot Walker Percy
- Flowers For AlgernonDaniel Keyes
- Everything That Rises Must Converge Flannery O’Connor
- Fear and Trembling Soren Kierkegaard
- What Katy Did Susan Coolidge
- A Wrinkle in Time Madeline L’Engle
- The Chosen Chaim Potok
- Till We Have Faces C.S. Lewis (Part 1)
- Notes from the Underground Fyodor Dostvoesky
- The Chronicles of Narnia C.S. Lewis (Part 2)
- The Langoliers (Four Past Midnight) Stephen King
- The Chronicles of Narnia C.S. Lewis (Part 3)
I am a listener of this podcast and I wanted to thank you for this segment! Lost in Literature is a great way to see the television show from a different perspective. As someone who has seen the series in its entirety several times, I am enjoying my most recent re-watch even more so due to this segment. Thank you for spending time to enlighten all of the fans of the literature inspired through Lost!