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Very good article by Jerome Weeks of the Dallas Morning News about a couple of very good magic writers and their works.. Do yourself a favor and read it..

But in the past two years, books about magic have taken a smart new turn, splitting off from biographies of Houdini or how-to manuals, which currently fill the shelves (not counting Ricky Jay's wonderfully quirky antiquarian volumes, such as Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women).

The Glorious Deception and Hiding the Elephant, both by Mr. Steinmeyer, Peter Lamont's The Rise of the Indian Rope Trick and Karl Johnson's The Magician and the Cardsharp: Whatever else they do, these books track the development of a single piece of stagecraft. To varying degrees, they are about the meanings of magic.

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