Had a great time @treadwells-books.bsky.social listening to the author and host of the brilliant podcast The Witch Wave @phantasmaphile.bsky.social The sold out talk was about linking creativity with magic. #witchcraft #witches

Day 13 of my bookish gift guide… Magic Maker: The Enchanted Path to Creativity by @phantasmaphile.bsky.social explores creativity and magic as inseparable forces, all in service of making whatever it is you’re meant to make. A song, a novel, a path through this strange world.

learning there's an angel in the Kabbalah who helps you find the books you need at the library has made my night. from @phantasmaphile.bsky.social's deeply researched Magic Maker, which I am slowly savoring.

Great interview with @phantasmaphile.bsky.social on @thecreativeindependent.com thecreativeindependent.com/people/autho...

"So much more is made in collaboration than I think we often are encouraged to acknowledge."@phantasmaphile.bsky.social on @aquariumdrunkard.com Transmissions, articulating how artmaking is a collaborative process—even when the collaborators aren't visible or even physical. @talkhouse.bsky.social.

This week on @aquariumdrunkard.com Transmissions: magic, mystery, and the making of sacred art with @phantasmaphile.bsky.social. Listen wherever you get podcasts via @talkhouse.bsky.social and direct at subscriber-supported Aquarium Drunkard.

the whole article could have just been ten pages of “Brilliant Things Eleanor O’Brien Said,” and some gold was left on the cutting room floor, but this is such a banger of a closer and it’s so very much the theme of today

MAGIC MAKER IS OUT NOW! May it help you make the magic you’re meant to. So mote it be and SO IT IS 🪄♾️💫 Thanks so much to those of you who have picked one up already - or who are about to! I’m so grateful to you. Here’s to creativity, imagination, and the Mercurial magic of making things. ✨🩶✨

The Magician is the guiding archetype of MAGIC MAKER, because they are the bridge between realms. They turn Creative Force into intentional form, and use their magic to make the immaterial material. MAGIC MAKER is out TOMORROW, and I can’t wait for you to read it! 👆♾️👇

Looking forward to making some magic with you in celebration of my new book Magic Maker: The Enchanted Path to Creativity - out next Tuesday Oct 14. Join me! Pamgrossman.com/events 🪄📖♾️💫

Pam’s book comes out in just under a week! Pre-order a copy! @phantasmaphile.bsky.social

@phantasmaphile.bsky.social first episode of Season 9 is pretty damn great. Just two of my favorite people being wonderful. youtu.be/kk7azhC6PnM?...

We’re back with Season 9 of The Witch Wave! Thrilled to have consummate host @steveburnsalive.bsky.social of Blue’s Clues and #AliveWithSteveBurns on the show talking about spirituality, meditation, and more: youtube.com/shorts/DDOPa.... Catch it on @youtube or wherever you get podcasts

Honored that my new book MAGIC MAKER has this endorsement from one of *my* biggest inspirations, @thejinkx.bsky.social. Out Oct 14 and available for preorder now: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/753978...

"Grossman’s exploration of what it means to create is expansive and inspiring...This is a thought-provoking guide and a joyous ode to creativity’s many mysteries." Thank you @publisherswkly.bsky.social for the kind words about MAGIC MAKER! www.publishersweekly.com/9780593832363 🪄📖♾️💫

UK folks: get 25% off MAGIC MAKER if you pre-order from @waterstones.bsky.social with code SUMMER25. Offer ends July 31: www.waterstones.com/book/magic-m...

Last time we raised over $65K for the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund. Here’s hoping we can blow that out of the water this time around. Please donate what you can: ig.me/1JSuj6OtAsno...

Thrilled to reveal the glorious cover for my new book, MAGIC MAKER: THE ENCHANTED PATH TO CREATIVITY. My intention for this tome is to help you supercharge your own creativity using magical techniques, as so many visionaries have done throughout history (and as I do myself). Out Oct 14!

Right now, Republicans in Congress are trying to push through a bill that would put millions of Americans at risk of losing their health care. They want to cut federal funding for Medicaid, take away tax credits that help more people afford coverage, and raise costs for working class families.

Clive Barker gets it. faroutmagazine.co.uk/hellraiser-c...

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

Thank you for your patriotism and inspiring leadership, @booker.senate.gov. 🇺🇸❤️🤍💙

I really enjoyed this episode -- it felt really exciting and expansive. and as someone who has only just dipped a toe into the Thoth deck decades after being bullied by a crustgoth who claimed to be in the OTO, I felt seen haha!

Spoke with @mitchhorowitz.bsky.social about the hoodoo roots of The Dixie Cups' "Iko Iko," @phantasmaphile.bsky.social, comics creator Steve Ditko, & how a practice as simple as knocking on wood shows humility toward the "strange bargains" we strike with the natural world. bit.ly/41QGEDL

New book = new author photo! Felt like the pic for MAGIC MAKER: THE ENCHANTED PATH TO CREATIVITY required a magic touch, and so I’m grateful to the following magicians for sharing their craft with me for this shoot: 📷: Frances F. Denny 💡: Joseph Popovich 💁‍♀️ & 💄: Liv Swenson 🏠: Jesse Bransford

Loved talking to #MitchHorowitz on The Witch Wave about his dual roles as an occult historian & practitioner, why self-expression & true desire are the keys to effective spellcasting, & how his belief in “anarchic magick” has led him to a happier & more fulfilling life: youtu.be/NYmlIEMmIJU?...

It feels more important than ever to make sure you scrub your address and other personal info from the web as much as possible. I've been using DeleteMe for a while and highly recommend it. Not a perfect solution I know, but worth it. Here's a 20% off referral link: joindeleteme.com/refer?coupon...

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

BREAKING: We and @nyclu.org are joining Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil's legal team after ICE unlawfully arrested and detained him in retaliation for his political views. We will see the Trump administration in court.

Watch my Witch Wave interview with Vera Sola AKA Danielle Aykroyd now. We talk ghosts, spiritual songwriting, finding your voice and more: youtu.be/-jJWUzUX8BQ?...

If, for example, Trump says nobody is allowed to dance, on penalty of death, he has no legal power to make that declaration and no power to enforce it, but if everyone stops dancing it's as good as if he did. Reporting as though Trump has these powers helps give him those powers.

Loved talking ghosts and spirited music-making on The Witch Wave with one of my very favorite musicians, Vera Sola AKA Danielle Aykroyd. Listen here open.spotify.com/episode/6mKl... or wherever you get podcasts 👻🎸🤘♥️

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Such a great and fun chat between @phantasmaphile.bsky.social and @leilataylor.bsky.social here. I learned so much! Come for the witch houses, stay for the brutalist architecture.

If you’ve already started calling it the Gulf of America instead of the Gulf of Mexico, you should have no trouble with someone’s preferred name and pronouns.

we literally live on a planet-sized paradise and yet little bitches with too much money and obsessions with superiority & domination are doing their damnedest to cockblock full & proper enjoyment of Earthly blessings

The internet has claimed this and we are never getting it back. For the record: 1) The text comes from my book KAIBYO: THE SUPERNATURAL CATS OF JAPAN 2) The image is by artist Noguchi Tetsuya - Warrior takes an armored cat for a walk; 着甲武人猫散歩逍遥図, (2014). Neither of us are credited.

3500 scientists, biologists and experts in human sexual development write to the US government saying that sex isn't binary www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display...

Sports Counterprogramming: Pinching myself that I get to be a small part of @thejinkx.bsky.social’s #CarnegieHall debut on VDay (/my BDay)! A handful of tix to this sold-out show has just been released so grab em while you can! www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/202... Can’t wait to see you there. 💘🧙‍♀️♥️👑💝

I’m telling everyone: Do not open the door or say a word unless you’re expecting someone and know exactly who it is. Know your rights. Pass these around…

UPDATE: Literary Organizations Release Joint Statement Decrying Anti-Trans Executive Order “ #Trans, #nonbinary, and #intersex experience is vastly underrepresented in literature but disproportionately targeted by bans. … Such censorship robs us of perspectives that enrich the American story.”

And our chat is also available to watch on my YouTube channel as well. Have a watch and please like and subscribe if you dig, as more Witch Wave videos are on their way. youtu.be/NWfFFtajq3g?...

Reposting for the daytime shift 👇

Such a pleasure having @leilataylor.bsky.social back on The Witch Wave - and a rare in-studio visit to boot! We talk about the captivating power of haunted houses, the aptly named Brutalist architecture movement, and the irresistible appeal of the “witch house.” open.spotify.com/episode/0lau...

I just called and left messages for my senators Schumer (who I think everyone should call since he’s the head of the Dems in Senate) and Gillibrand. I told them I’m furious and deeply worried about Musk’s takeover & that they need to be a united front and vote NO against ALL of Tr*mp’s nominees

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO