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The Magician

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The Magician

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The Magician is a recurring book in the Collected Agenda archive, appearing 6 times across 6 issues between October 07, 2024 and November 26, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “I’m reading The Magician by Christopher Zeischegg. Body horror, noir”; “continue reading Christopher Zeischegg The Magician. I’ve been reading it for a while now”; “continue reading Christopher Zeischegg The Magician . I’ve been reading it for a while now”. It most often appears alongside Christopher Zeischegg, Chloe Pingeon, Sovereign House.

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  • Category: Books
  • Mention count: 6
  • Issue count: 6
  • First seen: October 07, 2024
  • Last seen: November 26, 2024

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Mimetic Theories of Doing Nothing
October 07, 2024 · Original source
I slept too late this morning, and so I am trying to resurrect the situation by staying up till sunrise and then drifting through the next day until it’s evening enough to sleep early. I’m reading The Magician by Christopher Zeischegg. Body horror, noir, it almost should come across as voyeuristic but it doesn’t. I have a sense that if there is a book to read through the depraved haze of an all nighter it is this one. “There is nothing in here to satisfy the consumer,” says a glowing review on GoodReads.
Inline links: The Magician, Christopher Zeischegg
October in America
October 14, 2024 · Original source
Some girls standing behind the bar are asked to move to the main room, and so I slip into their spots in the newfound emptiness. I sit on the floor so I am hidden from view and continue reading Christopher Zeischegg The Magician. I’ve been reading it for a while now. At the Anti-Canada Propaganda party, I’m reading it for the second time. I’m trying to write a review. I’ve been having sleep paralysis most nights lately, and the book is starting to feel nightmarish.
Inline links: Christopher Zeischegg
Playing With Glass
November 05, 2024 · Original source
From 7pm at Sovereign House — Christopher Zeischegg makes a rare NYC appearance to celebrate the launch of The Magician with a night of alter egos. I recently read and loved this book - “an incantatory trip into the heart of darkness”. Come as you are (or as you are not). Readings by Tess Manhattan, Reuben Dendinger, and Chris Zeischegg. A short film screening of THE MAGICIAN will follow, inspired by the harrowing story behind the text.
Inline links: Sovereign House, Christopher Zeischegg, The Magician, Tess Manhattan
Counterculture in America
November 12, 2024 · Original source
I’m recalling things in bullet points. Diner at Casino with Ellie and Shannon. Lychee martini, then dirty martini then steak tartare and chicken and pasta, etc. Then, The Magician publication party at Sovereign House. I’ve been writing about this book - it’s very nice to see the short film that accompanies it. Here is something I have written about this book - I hope to share the rest of it it soon:
Inline links: Casino, Shannon, The Magician
There is a nightmarish quality to Christopher Zeischegg’s “The Magician.” I read the book twice, the first time through the haze of an all nighter — sleep deprivation and sleep paralysis hastening my descent into the blur of self destruction and bodily decay that the narrative presents. “Just a thing inside your body that won’t listen to your head,” a malignant acquaintance tells the narrator early in the novel, as a prescription of sorts for the root of all his problems. At dawn, this rings true. This distance between body and self, judgment and subconscious, good and evil, is perhaps the root of all that is hellish.
Collected Agenda with Lydia Sviatoslavsky
November 13, 2024 · Original source
Tonight is Christopher Zeischegg’s book launch party. Chris is a client of mine, and I’ve been planning this event for months now. Apocalypse Party Press recently re-released his novel The Magician, a contemporary horror novel that garnered a rabid cult following when it was originally published by Amphetamine Sulphate in 2020. The Magician is a dark, hallucinatory journey through California’s fractured dreamscape, a melding of horror and autofiction based loosely on Zeischegg’s post-porn life.
Inline links: Christopher Zeischegg, Apocalypse Party Press, The Magician
Chris, who I haven’t yet met in person, is visiting from LA for the event. The lineup is solid: artist-writer Tess Manhattan, Cursed Images author Reuben Dendinger, and Chris himself. A screening of The Magician short film (inspired by the making of text) will follow the readings. Later, Senegalese experimental hip hop artist iD-SuS will take the stage.
Inline links: Tess Manhattan, Cursed Images, iD-SuS
The Magician by Christopher Zeischegg
Collected Agenda (lite)
November 26, 2024 · Original source
From 7pm — Come Confess in the Red Room. Lineup coming soon. OF FURTHER INTRIGUE For Mundane Mag, I wrote about the NYC Launch Party celebrating Christopher Zeischegg’s novel The Magician. It was a great party, and it’s a wonderful book (available for purchase) I will be in Williamstown, Massachusetts for Thanksgiving this weekend. The Berkshires remain one of the most special places in the world — I made a list of places I want to show my boyfriend while we are there, which I will put below for viewing pleasure and travel purposes: MASS MoCA: My favorite contemporary art museum in the world - putting aside the strength of programming (and the programming usually is pretty strong), the architectural space, lack of crowds, and integration with landscape and nature that Mass MoCA boasts is unparalleled. The museum is located in a converted Arnold Print Works factory building complex, and much of the art is site-specific to the bones and scale of this structure. The permanent (and/or very long term) exhibitions are worth a visit alone - Anslem Kiefer, James Turrell, Sol Lewitt, etc.
Inline links: Confess, Red Room, Mundane Mag, purchase, MASS MoCA, Anslem Kiefer, James Turrell, Sol Lewitt

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