David Duchovny's New Book 'Truly Like Lightning' Started As An 'X-Files' Episode
David Duchovny is best known for portraying Fox Mulder, a believer in all things supernatural, in the long-running TV series “The X Files.”
But Duchovny also has a master’s in English literature. And in the last few years, he’s turned his talents to writing novels. The most recent one, “Truly Like Lightning,” came out last month.
Here & Now producer Emiko Tamagawa interviewed David Duchovny about his book for a virtual event held by the Massachusetts-based Brookline Booksmith. A Zoom crowd eagerly awaited Duchovny as event director Bryana Tribuna spoke for many of the fans in her introduction: “David Duchovny has been a constant in my life since ‘The X-Files’ first aired, and I was just a weird little kid obsessed with bigfoot, werewolves and aliens.”
When Tamagawa started reading Duchovny’s new book, she immediately leapt to the acknowledgments in search of where the book came from. Two things stood out to her: the writings of Harold Bloom, a professor Duchovny had when he attended graduate school at Yale University, and a connection to an episode the actor wrote for “The X-Files.”
After six years of starring in the hit science fiction
