Literary Lost: Viewing Television Through the Lens of Literature
I've been arguing for decades that not only is television not inimical to literacy, it is a great ally of reading. Sarah Clarke Stuart's Literary Lost provides a brilliant, meticulous, soaring and satisfying proof of that proposition. Her tour-de-force analysis examines the roles of nearly a hundred books in Lost, ranging from the Holy Qu'run to the Wizard of Oz. The television series had highs and lows of narrative; Stuart's work has only highs, and is destined to become a classic in television studies. (Paul Levinson, Author of New New Media, and The Plot to Save Socrates)