Black Coffee Lightning: David Lynch Returns to Twin Peaks

by Greg Olson

Greg Olson, author of David Beautiful Dark , the essential book on Lynch’s life and art, has resided in the Twin Peaks region of the Northwest for decades, and David Lynch spent youthful years in the Northwest; both of their fathers were woodsmen. Lynch believes that the world hums with spirituality, and over a thirty-year span Lynch and Mark Frost created forty-eight hours of Twin Peaks TV and film, hypnotic cinematic music immersed in the depths and divine heights of human nature, an artistic song of the forest, America, the world, the cosmos. David Lynch is an international icon of visionary artistic innovation, humanistic thought and philanthropy, and spiritual exploration, and Twin The Return is his magnum opus, a mytho-poetic summation of his deepest beliefs and concerns. Author Olson, in his characteristically intimate and personal way, traces the Twin Peaks currents of Lynch’s emotional-visceral storytelling, themes, imagery and the way the artist and viewer share an electrified circuit of mystery and understanding.

310 pages, Paperback

Published November 8, 2023

About the author

New book Indigenous Missouri: Ancient Societies to the Present out in early 2023!

Greg Olson has published several articles and books about about the history of Indigenous people in Missouri, Kansas and Iowa.

Reviews

[Dan · Rating 2 out of 5]

Author Greg Olsen seems like a nice enough guy, but this book is a well-meaning mess. As I’ve been writing a pretty detailed analysis of Twin Peaks: The Return myself, I was intrigued by his attempt to go through the series one episode at a time. But his analysis is so unstructured and downright flimsy that I simply lost interest halfway through.

[Prisoner 071053 · Rating 1 out of 5]

If you enjoy reading about politics instead of Twin Peaks, and if you're obsessed with Donald Trump rather than David Lynch, this is the book for you. I couldn't make it past the first real chapter.