An eccentric pairing has recently gained uncanny relevance for me - as well as for others. When I first heard of the Jane Austen/David Lynch podcast Manners & Madness, I found it to be a delightful conceit but did not rush to listen because I hadn't yet read any of Austen's novels nor even seen a movie based on one of those novels. However, once my girlfriend introduced me to Austen via Pride and Prejudice (the novel as well as the nineties BBC and zeroes cinematic adaptations), at the same time that I was initiating her into the Lynchverse, this odd combination of disparate artists suddenly piqued my interest. And, for reasons both salutary and sorrowful, the union of Lynch and Austen has now become more au courant than ever; both of them, one for her birth and the other for his death, are "having a moment" in 2025 pop culture. With Austen turning a ripe quarter-millennium today, this felt like the right time to chat with Maya Adkins and Christian Cabrera, the hosts of Manners & Madness for the past six years. There was so much to dig into with the filmmaker and novelist: the connections between the most famous characters in their works; the difference between Maya's longtime experience with Lynch and Austen vs. Christian's fresh-faced exploration of both; the distinctions between various Austen adaptations; the ways in which Lynch challengers viewers (and Austen challenges readers); and the favorite Lynch films, Austen novels, Austen adaptations, and Twin Peaks sections of both hosts - some of this explored, alongside deep dives into the recent miniseries Miss Austen and my first foray into Northanger Abbey, in the longer back section of the podcast on Patreon's $5/month tier.
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Like my August 2025 conversation with Mike Miley, my last two conversations with John Thorne (one in December on his Mulholland Drive book and a more general one in October), my April/May 2024 conversation with Cameron Cloutier and Josh Eisenstadt, and my December 2023 conversation with Rob King, this is a bonus episode of the Twin Peaks Conversations podcast (which ended its monthly run halfway through 2023). Going forward, there will be a pause not only in these bonuses but in any exclusive Patreon reward at all, with advances of public work providing the monthly content for both tiers until I finish the four projects which will consume all of my attention in 2026, with no further distractions: the Mirrors of Kane video series, the Lost in Twin Peaks podcast, the TWIN PEAKS Character Series, and the Journey Through Twin Peaks video series.
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