Occulum. She co-authored the graphic novel, The Sacrifice of Darkness, with Roxane Gay. Her story, “This Weekend” was included in Best Microfiction 2019.Her new book, Magician, is "dark magic debut novel featuring the Boy who becomes the Magician and the villainous Mother whose sadism might end it all."
Recently I asked the author about what she was reading. Oliver's reply:
A book about remote viewing. Have you ever heard the name Ingo Swann? He was a man that worked with a ‘deep black’ agency that handled UFO’s, aliens on the moon and telepathic mind control. Ingo Swann was an extraordinarily talented remote viewer whichVisit Tracy Lynne Oliver's website.means he can be given ‘targets’ which he can access with his mind. These targets can be physically located here on earth or even other planets. The book is called, Penetration: The Question of Extraterrestrial and Human Telepathy. I love shit like this. And, after reading, well, let’s just say, what he saw on other planets may change your brain.
Joe Hill’s King Sorrow which follows a friend group over decades. Back in college, they summon a dragon and murder, sacrifice and destruction ensue. I quite enjoy Joe Hill’s work and throw in a dragon and I’m there. This was a thick gal, so it took me just over a month to devour, which is only a quarter-second in dragon time.
Because I wanted to relive her magic again, I re-read Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Chronology of Water. When this book came out in 2011 it proved to me how beautiful words can be no matter how ugly or distressing the subject matter. A memoir of a girl who becomes a woman who becomes a twice-mother and some ugly struggles in between. The way Lidia uses her words imprints all she wants to say into your soul.
Q&A with Tracy Lynne Oliver.
--Marshal Zeringue
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