James Alan is a busy professional magician, specializing in sleight of hand, and performing "Magic for Grownups." Despite a busy schedule, he still finds time to read plenty of magic books.
The seminal text on mentalism is back in print. Find out why this is the go-to book for any serious student on the subject.
This book contains material well within the reach of any intermediate close-up performer. The routines seem to be designed with the restaurant worker in mind.
Calico is composed entirely of tricks using coins that look visibly different. The tricks shared here seem impossible even to someone who has read Bobo and Roth.
This “expert” biography assumes that the pillars of 20th-century stage magic are known to you: Kellar, Thurston, Blackstone, Dante. But it tells the story of 20th-century magic from the less famous side—the Great Depression, World War II, live performance giving way to film and television.
This installment of Vanishing Inc.’s Masterclass series might be described as the beginner’s guide to advanced sleight of hand. To say this instruction is detailed would be an understatement.
Looking at the cover and the title, you would think this was a theory monograph. It’s actually a card trick. And while most magic releases are engineered to be as easy as possible, this card trick is complicated, hard, and will absolutely not go “right into your show.”
Oliver Meech has produced an easy-to-read collection of even-easier-to-do card material. It is quirky in a Paul Harris, Jay Sankey sort of way that screams “don’t take me too seriously.”
Flamenco is the third in the series of “Bewitched Music” following Sonata (1989) and Mnemonica (2004). Distinct from the other celebrated trilogy that deals with magic in a more abstract theoretical way, this book is tricks and sleights from cover to cover.
Magicians don’t need to still be alive to surprise you. Do you want to read hand-written notes from when Mozart (yes, that one) was studying magic tricks? Thanks to Reinhard Müller and Rainer Buland, now you can.
A moment by moment description of this FISM-winning act by Markobi. Readers really benefit from the detailed descriptions of the routine approach and construction.
This video is about one thing: cold reading. Mentalists drool at the thought of it: the perfect invisible method.
