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Jennifer Spiegel

I. Mid-Season Ponderings

Visualize a square circle.  Can you do it?

I knew I wanted to write about “Lost” before I knew what I wanted to say.

How “Lost” Saved My Marriage:  I Once Was Lost, But Now I’m Found?

That could work.  The truth is I’m no lit-crit scholar; I’m a fiction-writer who likes to dabble in pseudo-criticism with a strong hint of creative nonfiction.  So I could go into how my husband and I made this tacit commitment to watch “Lost” till the bitter end, after we checked it out (innocently) from the local library in August 2009, sometime around our fifth anniversary—and then we watched it three to four times a week until we were caught up with the rest of the world, before joining the sixth season frenzy.  By spring 2010, “Lost” was deeply woven into our sinews, a part of us that would most certainly be missed at the end.  Ou… Continue Reading