Basic Witches
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In Basic Witches, readers will discover how to tap into their inner sorceress and channel the dark arts for everything from cluttered apartments to dating disasters. Want to enhance your attractiveness? Pick the right power color of eyeshadow and project otherworldly glamour. Need to exorcise a toxic friendship? Say the right symbolic curse and banish it from your life. Need to boost your self-confidence? Whip up a tasty herbal potion to strengthen your inner resolve. Plus historical and pop culture sidebars that situate the new witchcraft trend within a broader context. With humor, heart, and a hip modern sensibility, journalists Jaya Saxena and Jess Zimmerman dispense witchy wisdom for the curious, the cynical, and anyone who could use a magical boost to get through the day. This ain t your grandma s grimoire!
Jaya Saxena is the co-author of DAD MAGAZINE (Quirk, 2016) and author of THE BOOK OF LOST RECIPES (Page Street, July 2016). She s a staff writer at The Daily Dot, and her work has appeared in many outlets including The Toast, Buzzfeed, Eater, The New Yorker, WNYC s TL;DR podcast, and many others. Jess Zimmerman is a staff editor at The Establishment and a freelance editor and writer. She has been published in Atlas Obscura, Hazlitt, the Guardian, the New Republic, the Hairpin, the Toast, Eater, Aeon, and others, and identifies as Chaotic Good.