Magical Buffet’s 10 Questions For Gary Lachman
1. As I made note of in my review of your latest book “Politics and the Occult: The Left, the Right, and the Radically Unseen” you belonged to the band Blondie and were a fixture of the New York music scene, how did Gary Valentine the rocker become Gary Lachman the writer?
GL: I had always wanted to ‘be a writer’ and wrote poetry before I became a musician. It was through the poetry that I became a songwriter. While in Blondie, my own and other groups, I always read philosophy, psychology, literature and so on.
2. What drew you to studying occult movements and philosophies?
GL: I became seriously interested in the study of the occult through reading Colin Wilson’s excellent book The Occult, which takes a more philosophical approach to the subject than most other similar books do.
