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Aaron Z. Lewis • You Can Handle the Post-Truth: A Pocket Guide to the Surreal Internet
This might be the most important question for every creator and maker in the world: How do you make something new, if most people just like what they know? Is it possible to surprise with familiarity?
Derek Thompson • Hit Makers
I dismiss Roy Horn’s medical-tiger treatment, but it sure isn’t more stupid than me getting out of breath walking up a flight of stairs and not changing a goddamn thing.
Penn Jillette • Presto!: How I Made Over 100 Pounds Disappear and Other Magical Tales
Ari Lewis • How Dave Portnoy Single Handedly Changed the Media Business Forever — Ari Lewis
Jean Robert-Houdin was famous for the opinion that a magician is actually just "an actor playing the part of a magician."
Teller Jim Steinmeyer • Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear
For much of the 1970s, Doug Henning was North America’s best-known magician. He was a charismatic and comedic entertainer, and he connected with large audiences because of his personal brand. He was a straight-up hippie: fuzzy mustache, long Allman Brothers–style hair, bell bottoms, and tie-dyed shirts. His image fit snugly into the trendy, New Age
... See moreIan Frisch • Magic Is Dead: My Journey into the World's Most Secretive Society of Magicians
Il avait fondé la réflexion sur un des principes de base du concept : pourquoi payer plus cher quelque chose qu’on peut acheter moins cher ? Et un matin, au terme de moult réunions et creusages de cervelle, il débarquait dans mon bureau et me sortait ces deux mots : « Devenez radin ! »