Mike Miley
@mikemiley.bsky.social
Books: DAVID LYNCH'S AMERICAN DREAMSCAPE (2025) | TRUTH & CONSEQUENCES: GAME SHOWS IN FICTION & FILM (2019), CONVERSATIONS WITH STEVE ERICKSON (2021)
www.mikemiley.com
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Post a movie where you are from
November 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Post a movie where you are from
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HA HA HA YES
🚨Jane Schoenbrun is adapting BLACK HOLE for Netflix.🚨
Charles Burns’ cult graphic novel of teenage mutation, sex & rot in the suburbs — through the I Saw the TV Glow lens?! We’re not ready for this kind of beautiful sickness.
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Charles Burns’ cult graphic novel of teenage mutation, sex & rot in the suburbs — through the I Saw the TV Glow lens?! We’re not ready for this kind of beautiful sickness.
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Netflix orders Jane Schoenbrun adaptation of Charles Burns’s Black Hole, direct to series
Netflix has ordered Jane Schoenbrun’s adaptation of Charles Burns’s Black Hole, in what promises to be a perfect collision of adolescent body horror and screen-age dysphoria.
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October 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
HA HA HA YES
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Mike Miley discusses his new book on David Lynch.
Particularly interested in the idea of Lynch's influence on "Laura Palmer Pop", i.e. Lana Del Ray, Lorde, Olivia Rodrigo...
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Particularly interested in the idea of Lynch's influence on "Laura Palmer Pop", i.e. Lana Del Ray, Lorde, Olivia Rodrigo...
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October 5, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Mike Miley discusses his new book on David Lynch.
Particularly interested in the idea of Lynch's influence on "Laura Palmer Pop", i.e. Lana Del Ray, Lorde, Olivia Rodrigo...
newbooksnetwork.com/david-lynchs...
Particularly interested in the idea of Lynch's influence on "Laura Palmer Pop", i.e. Lana Del Ray, Lorde, Olivia Rodrigo...
newbooksnetwork.com/david-lynchs...
RIP Penelope Milford
October 15, 2025 at 8:38 PM
RIP Penelope Milford
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Finishing up Mike Miley's David Lynch’s American Dreamscape : Music, Literature, Cinema (2025) when the conclusion hit me kinda hard - he compares Lynch to DFW and Lana Del Rey.
LDR has never really done it for me but he makes an interesting case w/sincerity-in-irony for all 3 artists.
LDR has never really done it for me but he makes an interesting case w/sincerity-in-irony for all 3 artists.
October 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Finishing up Mike Miley's David Lynch’s American Dreamscape : Music, Literature, Cinema (2025) when the conclusion hit me kinda hard - he compares Lynch to DFW and Lana Del Rey.
LDR has never really done it for me but he makes an interesting case w/sincerity-in-irony for all 3 artists.
LDR has never really done it for me but he makes an interesting case w/sincerity-in-irony for all 3 artists.
Back in @criterion.bsky.social with a write-up on the LRB piece about David Lynch's American Dreamscape. Thanks, @dwhdaily.bsky.social!
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September Books
Notes on new studies of David Lynch and Stanley Kubrick and biographies of Jane Birkin and Terrence Malick.
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September 29, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Back in @criterion.bsky.social with a write-up on the LRB piece about David Lynch's American Dreamscape. Thanks, @dwhdaily.bsky.social!
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The narrative is elsewhere. Buried as the conspiracy of the real. ⚫️^o^
Ebooks of Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 dropped a few days ago. Physical release Oct 16.
Preorder here: bloomsbury.com/uk/twin-peaks-…
Or even better: Please ask your local indie bookstore to stock Timecodes Series titles.
Ebooks of Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 dropped a few days ago. Physical release Oct 16.
Preorder here: bloomsbury.com/uk/twin-peaks-…
Or even better: Please ask your local indie bookstore to stock Timecodes Series titles.
September 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
The narrative is elsewhere. Buried as the conspiracy of the real. ⚫️^o^
Ebooks of Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 dropped a few days ago. Physical release Oct 16.
Preorder here: bloomsbury.com/uk/twin-peaks-…
Or even better: Please ask your local indie bookstore to stock Timecodes Series titles.
Ebooks of Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 dropped a few days ago. Physical release Oct 16.
Preorder here: bloomsbury.com/uk/twin-peaks-…
Or even better: Please ask your local indie bookstore to stock Timecodes Series titles.
Katie on Haynes is required reading.
It’s official: my Velvet Goldmine book is available for preorder! (Book cover still a mystery, get excited)
Velvet Goldmine
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September 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Katie on Haynes is required reading.
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For your timeline pleasure, here's a VHS trailer for New World's HEATHERS:
youtu.be/9FZYzcWIR20
#FilmSky
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#FilmSky
Heathers (1989) VHS trailer
YouTube video by New World Pictures Podcast
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September 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM
For your timeline pleasure, here's a VHS trailer for New World's HEATHERS:
youtu.be/9FZYzcWIR20
#FilmSky
youtu.be/9FZYzcWIR20
#FilmSky
It is the eagerest hope of many, many good citizens of the town that George Amberson Showrunner gets his comeuppance. I hope he gets it three times filled, and running over. I also hope that those who longed for it are there to see it.
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Orson Welles’ Lost Movie Will Use AI to Reconstruct Missing 43 Minutes
Amazon-backed firm Showrunner, led by Edward Saatchi, is using the film as a test case for how Hollywood can overhaul production. The results won't be commercialized — the tech giant hasn't obtained r...
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September 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
It is the eagerest hope of many, many good citizens of the town that George Amberson Showrunner gets his comeuppance. I hope he gets it three times filled, and running over. I also hope that those who longed for it are there to see it.
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David Lynch's American Dreamscape in the London Review of Books:
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Ruby Hamilton · Things go kerflooey: David Lynch’s Gee-Wizardry
For years, his biography on press releases was just four words long: ‘Eagle scout, Missoula, Montana.’ David Lynch...
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September 3, 2025 at 2:19 PM
David Lynch's American Dreamscape in the London Review of Books:
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I bought 3 of these during the last sale (Sirk, De Palma, Jarmusch) and have worn at least two of them every week since. If you don't buy them now, you're just losing money.
My directors shirts now on sale for $16:
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August 31, 2025 at 3:40 AM
I bought 3 of these during the last sale (Sirk, De Palma, Jarmusch) and have worn at least two of them every week since. If you don't buy them now, you're just losing money.
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Let's make some *good* news! Here's what's ahead this fall on Watch With Jen pod. As always, guests & themes are subject to change & I'll have more announcements soon but this is a wonderful lineup & I'm honored to share it with you!
August 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Let's make some *good* news! Here's what's ahead this fall on Watch With Jen pod. As always, guests & themes are subject to change & I'll have more announcements soon but this is a wonderful lineup & I'm honored to share it with you!
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Happy 35th to ‘Pump Up the Volume.' An old piece about its prescience:
How ‘Pump Up the Volume’ Predicted a Gatekeeper-Free Future
This weekend marked the 25th anniversary of the release of Allan Moyle’s Pump Up the Volume, and in all the obvious ways, it shows that age: the music, the clothes, the cars, the references. More…
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August 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Happy 35th to ‘Pump Up the Volume.' An old piece about its prescience:
My first book is 50% off through Friday!
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Truth and Consequences
Although nearly every other television form or genre has undergone a massive critical and popular reassessment or resurgence in the past twenty years, the game show’s reputation has remained both rema...
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August 13, 2025 at 11:13 PM
My first book is 50% off through Friday!
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I went deep on David Lynch's American Dreamscape with Lost in the Movies. Joel's a really insightful reader and asked me some great questions.
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TWIN PEAKS CONVERSATIONS bonus podcast premieres tonight w/ <i>David Lynch's American Dreamscape</i> author Mike Miley (YouTube & extended PATREON)
Early this year when I stumbled across a YouTube trailer for an upcoming book titled David Lynch's American Dreamscape , full of clips that...
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August 12, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I went deep on David Lynch's American Dreamscape with Lost in the Movies. Joel's a really insightful reader and asked me some great questions.
www.lostinthemovies.com/2025/08/twin...
www.lostinthemovies.com/2025/08/twin...
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New episode! David Lipson chats with @mikemiley.bsky.social about his new book DAVID LYNCH'S AMERICAN DREAMSCAPE, his insights into the intertextuality of Lynch’s work, and being a high school teacher publishing academic
books. aca-media.org/episode81
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Ep. 81: Mike Miley & David Lynch’s American Dreamscape — Aca-Media
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August 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
New episode! David Lipson chats with @mikemiley.bsky.social about his new book DAVID LYNCH'S AMERICAN DREAMSCAPE, his insights into the intertextuality of Lynch’s work, and being a high school teacher publishing academic
books. aca-media.org/episode81
books. aca-media.org/episode81
Listen to me talk with David at @aca-media.bsky.social about my nontraditional academic path and David Lynch!
New episode! David Lipson chats with @mikemiley.bsky.social about his new book DAVID LYNCH'S AMERICAN DREAMSCAPE, his insights into the intertextuality of Lynch’s work, and being a high school teacher publishing academic
books. aca-media.org/episode81
books. aca-media.org/episode81
Ep. 81: Mike Miley & David Lynch’s American Dreamscape — Aca-Media
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August 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Listen to me talk with David at @aca-media.bsky.social about my nontraditional academic path and David Lynch!
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People Are Like Radios :: Mike Miley on David Lynch’s American Dreamscape
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Comparing and contrasting his oeuvre Miley demonstrates the strange and powerful way Lynch tapped into the human experience and the broader American pop landscape.
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Comparing and contrasting his oeuvre Miley demonstrates the strange and powerful way Lynch tapped into the human experience and the broader American pop landscape.
August 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
People Are Like Radios :: Mike Miley on David Lynch’s American Dreamscape
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Comparing and contrasting his oeuvre Miley demonstrates the strange and powerful way Lynch tapped into the human experience and the broader American pop landscape.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/08/08/p...
Comparing and contrasting his oeuvre Miley demonstrates the strange and powerful way Lynch tapped into the human experience and the broader American pop landscape.
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"[Lynch's] originality comes from how much he’s in dialogue with the world around him, and can transmute the stuff he’s taking in."
Spoke with @mikemiley.bsky.social about his excellent David Lynch book, now up at @aquariumdrunkard.com.
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Spoke with @mikemiley.bsky.social about his excellent David Lynch book, now up at @aquariumdrunkard.com.
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People Are Like Radios : Mike Miley on David Lynch's American Dreamscape : Aquarium Drunkard
With David Lynch's American Dreamscape: Music, Literature, Cinema, author Mike Miley, a literature teacher at Metairie Park Country Day School and former film studies professor at Loyola University Ne...
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August 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
"[Lynch's] originality comes from how much he’s in dialogue with the world around him, and can transmute the stuff he’s taking in."
Spoke with @mikemiley.bsky.social about his excellent David Lynch book, now up at @aquariumdrunkard.com.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/08/08/p...
Spoke with @mikemiley.bsky.social about his excellent David Lynch book, now up at @aquariumdrunkard.com.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/08/08/p...
Proud as all get-out to have my book be considered part of "the good shit" at @aquariumdrunkard.com. Thanks to @jasonpwoodbury.bsky.social for a great interview and @thescrvnr.bsky.social for making the connection.
"[Lynch's] originality comes from how much he’s in dialogue with the world around him, and can transmute the stuff he’s taking in."
Spoke with @mikemiley.bsky.social about his excellent David Lynch book, now up at @aquariumdrunkard.com.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/08/08/p...
Spoke with @mikemiley.bsky.social about his excellent David Lynch book, now up at @aquariumdrunkard.com.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/08/08/p...
People Are Like Radios : Mike Miley on David Lynch's American Dreamscape : Aquarium Drunkard
With David Lynch's American Dreamscape: Music, Literature, Cinema, author Mike Miley, a literature teacher at Metairie Park Country Day School and former film studies professor at Loyola University Ne...
aquariumdrunkard.com
August 8, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Proud as all get-out to have my book be considered part of "the good shit" at @aquariumdrunkard.com. Thanks to @jasonpwoodbury.bsky.social for a great interview and @thescrvnr.bsky.social for making the connection.
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“Over the course of three decades of making movies, The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson has changed a lot, but his fascination with how people and things do or do not change, has remained amazingly consistent.”
Magonia: Mediations on Liminality in the Films of Paul Thomas Anderson
FIRST THING In the December 12th edition of the Los Angeles Daily News , in the year 1999, director Paul Thomas Anderson attempted to expl...
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July 29, 2025 at 12:43 AM
“Over the course of three decades of making movies, The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson has changed a lot, but his fascination with how people and things do or do not change, has remained amazingly consistent.”
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It's the last day of June so I'm going to share my book again. Caden and I wrote CFM with a deep and abiding love for trans people and our history dating back to the silent era of cinema up through the modern age. We did our best. Love y'all.
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Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema
The History and Future of Transness in Cinema
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June 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
It's the last day of June so I'm going to share my book again. Caden and I wrote CFM with a deep and abiding love for trans people and our history dating back to the silent era of cinema up through the modern age. We did our best. Love y'all.
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Share good news when you find it. This is a great (and greatly underappreciated) New Orleans novel.
Next year we're reissuing Nancy Lemann's Lives of the Saints along with a new book, The Oyster Diaries, two sections of which were published in The Paris Review.
“Usually I skip the articles and go straight to the comments section. Because it provides more technical info.”
Nancy Lemann on comments sections.
Nancy Lemann on comments sections.
June 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Share good news when you find it. This is a great (and greatly underappreciated) New Orleans novel.
Unranked and more or less off the dome
June 24, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Unranked and more or less off the dome