Javier Grillo-Marxuach

Though best known as one of the Emmy Award-winning writer/producers of Lost, Javier Grillo-Marxuach is a prolific writer of television shows, comic books, movies, and the occasional critical essay. He hosts (with fellow writer/producer Jose Molina) the Children of Tendu podcast, an educational program designed to help newcomers work their way into the entertainment industry without compromising their decency and integrity. Grillo-Marxuach's graphic novel-turned-television-series The Middleman can be found in all of its forms at O2STK.com.

I Am a Fucking Plagiarist

“I was a plagiarist already — but that’s the moment I became a fucking plagiarist.”...

JAVIER GRILLO-MARXUACH

MEMOIR & ESSAY

Gilding the Small Screen: or, “Is it just me or did TV get good all of a sudden?”

The true reasons for TV’s emergence as the preeminent mass medium of the early 21st century are primarily external to the actual business of creating televised narrative; none of them have anything to do with anyone’s personal greatness....

JAVIER GRILLO-MARXUACH

TELEVISION

Elephant Families

AT AGE SEVEN, I WAS TRAPPED in an elevator. Stuck. Forgotten. Desperate. OK. Kind of. In truth, my ordeal lasted all of a few minutes and ended swiftly when my companion — no, I wasn't alone, I admit it: there was a ...

JAVIER GRILLO-MARXUACH

YOUNG ADULT & CHILDREN’S LITERATURE