The Moon and Stars Can Be Yours
Notes on Subway Psychics
by Magali Duzant

The Moon and Stars Can Be Yours is a pocket-sized guide to modern mysticism by way of the New York City subway system. This collection of writing and photography by Magali Duzant includes a short history of psychics in our popular imagination and more than a dozen vignettes about her foray into new age beliefs, alongside a curious collection of artifacts and archival images from the New York Public Library Picture Collection.

The book follows Duzant on a freewheeling investigation into the rise of contemporary spiritualism in an age of uncertainty. Each chapter is presented in the form of an unanswerable question—Will I find happiness? Is there luck in my future? Will I find love that lasts?—and meanders into the murky world of palm readings and impromptu sauna astrology sessions, to name a few.

The Moon and Stars Can Be Yours: Notes on Subway Psychics includes a holographic cover, a selection of the colorful psychic fliers found on the subway, and in the back of each book, a scratch-off fortune card awaits the reader.

More by Magali Duzant: Pink Dogwood, Light Blue Desire: A Manual for the Color Blue, and I Looked & Looked.

Production Specs

Trim Size: 5x8in
Page Count: 106
Binding: Coil Bound
Format: Paperback
Printing: 1 Color (Black) on Mixed Paper Stock
Paper Stock: 80#T Uncoated Ultra White, 70#T Astrobrights (Lunar Blue, Outrageous Orchid, Venus Violet, Pulsar Pink)
Cover Material: 700 GSM Colorplan (Ebony)
Cover Details: Foil Stamp (Holographic)
Specialty Details: Scratch Off Foil Stamp

Colophon

Design: Studio Elana Schlenker
ISBN: 978-1-950401-90-1
Publication Date: 2019
Edition Size: 500