Doug Dorst

Doug Dorst

Photo Credit: Bill Fagelson

Emmy Award-winning filmmaker J.J. Abrams has produced, directed, or written films and television shows including Fringe, Lost, Alias, Felicity, Star Trek, Cloverfield, Super 8, Mission: Impossible, and more.

Doug Dorst teaches writing at Texas State University-San Marcos. He is author of the PEN/Hemingway-nominated novel Alive in Necropolis and the collection The Surf Guru. His work has appeared in McSweeney’s, Ploughshares, Epoch, and elsewhere. Dorst is also a three-time Jeopardy! champion.



What begins at the water shall end there, and what ends there shall once more begin. Words are a gift to the dead and a warning to the living.

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J.J. Abrams & Doug Dorst

J.J. Abrams’ trailer for S. by Abrams and Doug Dorst.