Wow… Things Happen by Vanessa Sinclair is released today! Coming of age in 1990s Florida… Sex & drugs & dark music… Goth & Fetish Clubs… Abandoned Cocaine Gangster Hotels… Love & Violence… Friendships that last for life & beyond… A psychedelic underground in pastel-colored Miami… Ivy and her girlfriends roll with the crazy Florida waves and vibes and weirdos as they learn the ropes of reality (so-called)… And things happen. They really do. THINGS HAPPEN is American artist & psychoanalyst Vanessa Sinclair’s debut novel: a prism of stories, fragments, and memories chronicling a young woman’s experiences of growing up in the anarchic high weirdness of Florida. It’s a time and space of awakenings in which sunshine, rainstorms and full-on hurricanes create the ambience of wide-eyed realizations that everything might not always be exactly as it seems. ”Vanessa Sinclair is a female William Burroughs for the age of...

I’m on the Magister Dixit Podcast – A GREAT conversation! ”Our guest is none other than Carl Abrahamsson, a visionary force hailing from Stockholm, Sweden. With a career spanning across decades, Carl has blended his passions for filmmaking and the esoteric, creating a tapestry of films that delve into the mysterious and the magical. From the thought-provoking “Into the Devil’s Den,” exploring the legacy of Anton LaVey, to the intimate “Cinemagician – Conversations with Kenneth Anger,” capturing the essence of the iconic filmmaker, Carl’s lens has shaped narratives that transcend the ordinary and delve into the extraordinary. His collaboration with the legendary Genesis P-Orridge has birthed intriguing works, including the documentary “Write Your Own Code,” a fascinating exploration into the intertwining realms of spoken word and visual art. But Carl is not only a maestro behind the camera; he’s also a prolific writer. His books, a...

Hats off to my lovely wife for having had such a productive year 2023! She made eight new albums together with British master musician Pete Murphy, and they are all so, so good. Adding to the seven classic albums they already had together! Vanessa’s cut-ups fit really well together with Pete’s extremely versatile musical mind, and the results are simply staggering, sublime, sexy, and psychedelically seductive. You can listen to them all here: (Or on any other streaming platform you’re comfortable with.) She also created 52 (!) episodes of her magnificent Rendering Unconscious podcast this year. That’s right – that’s on average one episode a week. More information here: So far she’s created 275 podcast episodes in total about the state of international psychoanalysis, psychology, and also art & the occult. I’m in a few of these episodes, and they are of course the best; but do listen to all of this wealth of diverse intelligence… 275 episodes so far… That’s quite a feat! She also...

The sublime Art Magic 23 book is now published: Aside from collages and photography documentation, you’ll also find an excerpt from Vanessa’s new novel ”Things Happen” and ”Whistling in the Dark: notes for an Experimental Psychodrama” by Mara Norman. You can read an expanded essay ”The Magic of Dreams Made Even More Real” by Carl Abrahamsson, and Karin Valis’ essay on ”Divine Embeddings: Sacred Alphabets and Large Language Models.” And more! #artmagic23 #vanessasinclair #carlabrahamsson