![]() ![]() Jacket blurbs like to call any book that drifts and ponders “a meditation.” White Magic does drift and ponder but it is not a meditation. And here, as online, the whole experience is teeming, harrowing, funny, smart, contradictory, difficult to summarize. Washuta cites “witch internet” for occult knowledge, one of the book’s subjects. Here, as online, some facts slip into a liminal space, presumed true but not precisely perceived so. Here, as online, this “I” quotes from sources as varied as Louise Erdrich, video games, The Catholic Encyclopedia, old tweets, and a Stevie Nicks profile. Here, as online, the principal voice is a nonfictional first person. Although it’s explicitly structured in three acts-and around tarot cards-Elissa Washuta’s new book White Magic (out April 27) feels shaped by a system altogether more immense and inconstant: the internet. ![]()
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