David Duchovny makes two appearances in Seattle this Sun Feb 19: a Town Hall talk with Jess Walter about his second novel, Bucky F*cking Dent; and later that evening, a concert with his band at the Crocodile. Credit: Jeff Drew

David Duchovny makes two appearances in Seattle this Sun Feb 19: a Town Hall talk with Jess Walter about his second novel, Bucky F*cking Dent; and later that evening, a concert with his band at the Crocodile.

David Duchovny makes two appearances in Seattle this Sun Feb 19: a Town Hall talk with Jess Walter about his second novel, Bucky F*cking Dent; and later that evening, a concert with his band at the Crocodile. Jeff Drew

Long ago in New England, a young man entrenched himself in Ivy League academia, first earning a BA from Princeton, followed by an MA from Yale. Both were in English literature. The twentysomething intellectual stayed on to pursue his Ph.D., thoughtfully ruminating on Magic and Technology in Contemporary Fiction and Poetry—this being the title of his dissertation. Alas, that dissertation went unfinished—for the young man was distracted by something glinting in the distance, off in the far-away west.

So the young man abandoned his bookish trajectory and set forth on a journey to Los Angeles—and soon, he launched an illustrious career as an actor. His name would soon come to be known far and wide: David Duchovny.