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The Creative Tarot ... playfully reinvents the arcane Renaissance-inspired cards. Author Jessa Crispin, founder of Bookslut.com, offers a history of tarot cards, which depict the whole realm of human experience and are arrayed to solve problems of love, friendship, loneliness, and loss. She shares how the tarot helped her 'find the narrative inside all the muddle' of her own life. Elle magazine Crispin presents a persuasive case for the tarot's usefulness to writers and artists; her many insights into the creative life as well as her dazzlingly wide array of examples throughout make this a valuable reference for readers not remotely interested in the 'psychic arts.' Publishers Weekly (starred review) Even readers with no previous interest in the tarot will be intrigued and delighted by Crispin's ardently researched, spirited, creative, and inspiring elucidation. Booklist Maybe you don't think astrology or tarot or anything like that is anything more than a case of people falling prey to confirmation bias in order to better figure out who they are. Well, get over yourself and let Crispin enchant you with this beautiful and oftentimes surprising look into the intertwining of tarot and the creative process. BKMag.com

Crispin presents a persuasive case for the tarot's usefulness to writers and artists; her many insights into the creative life as well as her dazzlingly wide array of examples throughout make this a valuable reference for readers not remotely interested in the 'psychic arts.' Publishers Weekly (starred review) Even readers with no previous interest in the tarot will be intrigued and delighted by Crispin's ardently researched, spirited, creative, and inspiring elucidation. Booklist Maybe you don't think astrology or tarot or anything like that is anything more than a case of people falling prey to confirmation bias in order to better figure out who they are. Well, get over yourself and let Crispin enchant you with this beautiful and oftentimes surprising look into the intertwining of tarot and the creative process. BKMag.com

The Creative Tarot ... playfully reinvents the arcane Renaissance-inspired cards. Elle magazine Maybe you don't think astrology or tarot or anything like that is anything more than a case of people falling prey to confirmation bias in order to better figure out who they are. Well, get over yourself and let Crispin enchant you with this beautiful and oftentimes surprising look into the intertwining of tarot and the creative process. BKMag.com Readers seeking creative inspiration will find this to be one of the most accessible books ever written on the subject. Library Journal (starred review) Crispin presents a persuasive case for the tarot's usefulness to writers and artists; her many insights into the creative life as well as her dazzlingly wide array of examples throughout make this a valuable reference for readers not remotely interested in the 'psychic arts.' Publishers Weekly (starred review) Even readers with no previous interest in the tarot will be intrigued and delighted by Crispin's ardently researched, spirited, creative, and inspiring elucidation. Booklist

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Jessa Crispin is the editor and founder of Bookslut.com and Spoliamag.com. She has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Boston Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Architect Magazine, The Globe and Mail, and other publications. Her first book, The Dead Ladies Project: Exile, Expats and Ex-Countries is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press. She has lived in Ireland, Chicago, Texas, Kansas, and Germany. She currently lives nowhere in particular.

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