Hey, podcast listeners, it's Anne here and it's back.

After 26 years, Twin Peaks returns for a third season on Showtime on Sunday, May 21st.

Twin Peaks, of course, is considered one of the greatest TV dramas ever made.

It's got a huge cult following.

Actually, so huge, it's probably not even fair to

call it a cult following. Mark Frost created the show, along with film director David Lynch.

And Frost is also a novelist, and his latest takes a deep dive into the history of that weird

little Pacific Northwest Town. The book is called

The Secret History of Twin Peaks. It's structured as a kind of secret dossier that's been put

together by some mysterious archivist and then annotated by an FBI agent. It includes

undiscovered diary entries from Lewis and Clark,

newspaper articles from the Twin Peaks Gazette, and even the menu of the double R. Diner,

where pies go to die. Doug Gordon sat down with Mark Frost to find out more.

Diane, 1130 a.m., February 24th, entering the town of Twin Peaks. It's five miles south of the

Canadian border, 12 miles west of the state line. I've never seen so many trees in my life.

As W.C. Fields would say, I'd rather be here than Philadelphia. 54 degrees on a slightly overcast day, the weather man said rain.

You can get paid that kind of money for being wrong, 60% of the time, can be working.

The mileage is 79,345, gauges on reserve, riding on fumes here.

I got a tank up when I get in the town.

I'm going to tell you how much that is.

Mark, for those of our listeners who aren't familiar with the original TV series, Twin Peaks,

can you give us a brief description of it?

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