{"id":6487,"date":"2014-05-21T21:10:52","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T03:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6487"},"modified":"2014-05-21T21:10:52","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T03:10:52","slug":"the-zells-biographer-on-living-your-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6487","title":{"rendered":"The Zells&#8217; Biographer on &#8220;Living Your Myth&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zXHWDizKVz8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>John Sulak, who co-wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Modern-Pagans-Search-John-Sulak\/dp\/1889307106\/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1400726158&amp;sr=1-3&amp;keywords=John+Sulak\"><em>Modern Pagans<\/em><\/a> for RE\/Search and worked for a decade on <em>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Wizard-Witch-Decades-Counterculture-Paganism\/dp\/0738714828\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1400726183&amp;sr=1-1\">Wizard and the Witch<\/a><\/em>, the new biography of Oberon and Morning Glory Zell, gives interviewer Anne Hill his own take on the Zells, the writing process, the Church of All Worlds, and others in their circle. (Was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendsofannwfn.org\/music.html\">Gwydion Pendderwen<\/a> really the Kurt Cobain of Paganism?)<\/p>\n<p>Sulak compares himself to Studs Terkel, but if he had &#8220;cut up&#8221; his interviews \u2014 and spoke in more of a monotone \u2014 he might remind me a little of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Call-Me-Burroughs-Barry-Miles\/dp\/1455511951\/ref=sr_1_1_ha?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1400726207&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=call+me+burroughs\"><em>someone else<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Sulak, who co-wrote Modern Pagans for RE\/Search and worked for a decade on The Wizard and the Witch, the new biography of Oberon and Morning Glory Zell, gives interviewer Anne Hill his own take on the Zells, the writing process, the Church of All Worlds, and others in their circle. (Was Gwydion Pendderwen really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,5,12],"class_list":["post-6487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-american-religion","tag-paganism","tag-writing"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1GD","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13518,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=13518","url_meta":{"origin":6487,"position":0},"title":"The Pagans, the Unicorns, and the Serial Killer","author":"Chas S. 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Clifton","date":"February 24, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"One of my earliest entries on this blog, clear back in 2003, was a complaint about the lack of biographical and autobiographical writing in American Wicca \u2014 and I would extend that to all types of new Paganism generally. That entry did mention Margot Adler's Heretic's Heart (1997), but I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"American religion\"","block_context":{"text":"American religion","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=american-religion"},"img":{"alt_text":"wizard and witch","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/wizard-and-witch.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1039,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1039","url_meta":{"origin":6487,"position":2},"title":"Casual Labor at the New Age Trade Show","author":"Chas S. 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