2026 UPDATE: Cameron Cloutier has since changed his views on the book, reporting, "I jumped the gun when this first came out, but after Season 3, The Final Dossier and a decade in between, I see how it all works together—as opposed to me reacting to this being the first new TP content in 25 years and worrying what this could mean for Season 3." In a recent interview, he discusses this directly with Mark Frost.
Several weeks ago, Mark Frost's new novel, The Secret History of Twin Peaks was released to general excitement, acclaim, bafflement, and frustration. Imaginatively written as an FBI dossier full of fictionalized mixed-media files (newspaper clippings, confidential reports, postcards, etc), Frost takes us through the history of the town and some of its inhabitants up to the final day of the series, going just a few hours further than what we had already seen. To the surprise of many readers, Frost focused a lot on a wider context - Lewis & Clark, Jack Parsons and the occult, UFO lore, even the JFK assassination and Nixon administration. Like all parts of Twin Peaks, the Secret History found its celebrants and its detractors...and Cameron Cloutier (as the video's cover-image suggests) was definitely one of the latter! I joined him for a video chat on his Obnoxious & Anonymous YouTube channel to discuss the book for several hours with other Twin Peaks fans. This was the first of my appearances on two different podcasts - the second will be cross-posted later today.
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