Rediscover: The Truth Is in a Bookstore

On September 10, 1993, television viewers were first introduced to David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. The X-Files ran for nine seasons, two movies, then another two seasons after its initial cancellation. It held the record for longest-running American sci-fi series, among a gallery of other accolades, and became a pop-culture phenomenon. The X-Files was also an important inspiration for a constellation of modern TV shows, and serves as a stepping stone between older series like The Twilight Zone and today's prestige television.

Though David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson continue to act, their talents have been abducted by a new media--books. Since the end of The X-Files, Duchovny and Anderson have each written multiple novels. Anderson's work is a thematic match for her old TV role. Between 2014 and 2016, she co-wrote (with Jeff Rovin) a trilogy of apocolyptic sci-fi called The Earthend Saga (A Vision of Fire; A Dream of Ice; The Sound of Seas). Her most recent work turns to nonfiction with We: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere (2018, Atria). Duchovny's post-X-Files writing skews toward literary fiction with Holy Cow (2015), Bucky F*cking Dent (2016) and Miss Subways (2018, Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Perhaps now Duchovny will have time to complete his as yet unfinished doctorate in English Literature from Yale University. --Tobias Mutter

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