A Poet from Hollywood: Love, Insanity, Stephen Gyllenhaal, and the Creative Process // Chapter 1

Cantara Christopher
12 min readAug 19, 2022

[IN WHICH I MAKE THE ACQUAINTANCE OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE WORST EPISODE OF TWIN PEAKS]

“So, This Isn’t Some Kind of Joke”

This is the story of how I tried to turn Stephen Gyllenhaal into a famous poet, then fell in love with him, then fell out of love with…

Cantara Christopher

Memoirist. Musicologist. Retired movie actress. I write about US+UK movies / books / music / radio+tv / culture. https://patreon.com/cantarachristopher