Lost Season 6 Premiere Preparation: Literary Lost Analysis from Chad W. Post

By Jason Boog 

lostposter23.jpgAll weekend, literary television fans should watch the new Lost Season Six trailer really, really slowly. In a burst of images, the trailer reveals some fresh footage from the cult television show.

On an upcoming Morning Media Menu we will interview Chad W. Post, the director of Open Letter Books and blogger at Three Percent. He will discuss his two specialties: analyzing the countless literary references on the television show Lost and publishing literature in translation.

UPDATE: Due to technical difficulties, this show was rescheduled for Tuesday, January 26 at 9:30 am EST. Press play on the embedded browser below to listen live. The show will be archived all around the mediabistro.com network as well.

Last week we interviewed Nikki Stafford, author of the five unofficial guides to the hit television show, Lost. She also keeps the popular blog, Nik at Nite.

Here’s an excerpt from the Stafford interview: “The books are essential. The second season was the first time they came out a head of time actually told viewers that they would flash a book and they should watch for it…in the beginning of season two…Desmond chucks a whole bunch of things into his backpack, one was a copy of the book, ‘The Third Policeman.’ This was a book that came out in the 1960s by an Irish writer [Flann O’Brien]. I interviewed an editor at that publishing house and they sold 20,000 copies of that book in the weeks leading up to the episode.”