In his last novel, DIY MAGIC, writer Anthony Alvarado created a compendium of exercises to jumpstart  the “microcosm,” or  the creative revolution within an individual, and he did so without all the heavy hoopla and goo-goo-woo-woo normally exasperated in “seeker”  oriented works.  Now, my friend and fellow practitioner has set his sights on the “macrocosm”, or the individual’s ability to affect society at large by inciting a political revolution, in his new book DIY RESISTANCE: 36 Ways to Fight Back! (Seven Stories Press).

The DIY ethos has been the bedrock of not only the social collectivist, but the progressive individualist across every artistic medium for decades.  Alvarado takes that same DIY gumption for creative commerce and community and corresponds it to grassroots political activism and social reform. The book totes that same, multi-generationally  self-sufficient, pragmatic approach of the DIY aesthetic into a PROTEST-PUNK PROSE meant to ignite and inspire.

​It utilizes​ the current administration as it’s call to arms for radical change,​and ​it celebrates and motivates ​REVOLT ​by showcasing  a myriad of historical examples of fascist-like regimes upheaved by socialist collectives.   So if you’re soured by the sentiment of this book’s choice of antagonist, hold fast but listen hard: Our conversation dives deep into healing the divide as much as it does investigating it. Or devastating it.

I racked my brain on when and how the political climate would  seep into PRAGMAGICK.  Even when the show was more focused on the “occult” or “esoteric”, their seemingly apolitical metaphysical philosophies seem to  support any ​practitioner’s political beliefs these days. But the pr