At the height of his career, Houdini boasted that no magician could fool him three times with the same trick. I had to write it.ĭai Vernon, arguably the greatest sleight-of-hand magician of all time. I couldn’t believe that there wasn’t a book about this community.
Not only that, but no one had written a book about the incredibly cool and strange and vibrant subculture that is the world of magic and magicians, a world I’d already been embroiled in for several years. It allowed me to explore these two passions simultaneously and share them with other people. I’d been interested in magic and science pretty much all my life, so having the chance to write Fooling Houdini was a real gift. Why did you decide to write Fooling Houdini? He graduated from Harvard University and has a master's degree in physics from Columbia University.
His writing has appeared in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Harper's, and Discover.
Alex Stone is the author of FOOLING HOUDINI: Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks, and the Hidden Powers of the Mind.
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