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Alex Mar

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Alex Mar is the author of Witches of America, which was a New York Times Notable Book in nonfiction. Her work has appeared in New York Magazine, Wired, The New York Times Book Review, and The Guardian, among many other outlets, as well as The Best American Magazine Writing. She has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award in Feature Writing, and she is the director of the feature-length documentary American Mystic. She lives in the Hudson Valley and New York City. Her new nonfiction book, Seventy Times Seven, will be published by Penguin Press on March 28th, 2023 (watch the trailer below).

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Witches of America

3.25 avg rating — 2,387 ratings — published 2015 — 11 editions
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Seventy Times Seven: A True...

3.95 avg rating — 1,185 ratings — published 2023 — 8 editions
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The Electricity Fairy

3.68 avg rating — 588 ratings2 editions
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“history teaches us that visions come most quickly to lone obsessives.”
Alex Mar, Witches of America

“the movement is not anti-men—it’s simply not about men.”
Alex Mar, Witches of America

“A religion might best be measured not by its myths but by its impact.”
Alex Mar, Witches of America

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