#71 - Elissa Washuta, Author of White Magic

The Witch Wave

Pam Grossman

Arts, Visual Arts, Spirituality, Other, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Elissa Washuta is a member of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe and a nonfiction writer. She is the author of White Magic, My Body Is a Book of Rules, and Starvation Mode. With Theresa Warburton, she is co-editor of the anthology Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers. She’s a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship recipient, a Creative Capital awardee, and an assistant professor of creative writing at the Ohio State University.

On this episode, Elissa discusses her examination of Native American and white culture in her work and magical practice, how to approach life like a mystic detective a la Twin Peaks’ Agent Dale Cooper, and why writing is the ultimate spell.

Pam also talks about balancing belief and skepticism, and answers a listener question about the revelations and risks of paying attention to synchronicities.

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2:01.7	The world is filled with bewitching people and you might be one too. Welcome to the podcast where
2:07.9	art is magic, magic is real, and reality is stranger than dreams. I'm Pam Grossman, and this is The Witch Wave.
2:38.8	Hello and welcome to The Witch Wave. So I have a confession. I never watched the ex-piles. I know,
3:02.5	but when it was airing in the 90s, I was a teenager with a much more delicate sensibility than I
3:10.4	have now. And the bits of it that crossed my consciousness at the time just kind of freaked me out
3:17.6	and grossed me out and so I skipped it. But the other night Matt and I were going round and around
3:26.0	in circles about what to watch, you know how those conversations go. And he suggested that I
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