This book makes you want to do magic tricks, and convinces you just how hard it is to do them well.” (Ira Glass, host of "This American Life" ) “What I loved most about Fooling Houdini is the world it takes us into: these huddled cliques of obsessed magicians reinventing their art. He immerses us in a fascinating world few have ever entered.” (Buzz Bissinger, author of Father's Day and Friday Night Lights ) He writes with wit and scientific sharpness and grand humor. In the physics Ph.D program at Columbia, he drops everything to pursue the murky world of magic. “Alex Stone’s Fooling Houdini is a delight. Alex Stone writes with a winning voice that you’ll want to follow anywhere.” (Joshua Foer, author of Moonwalking with Einstein ) “An enthralling journey into the inner world of magic. Does he succeed? I'd tell you the answer, but that would ruin the magic. He pursues every dark nook of the magic world in pursuit of the ultimate goal – a routine so mindboggling that it would fool other master magicians. And he explains how magicians exploit cognitive blind spots to make the impossible happen in public. Along the way, he learns how criminal empires were built on age-old magic scams. He attends magic schools and seeks out one of the best "card mechanics" in the world.
After failing at the Magic Olympics in Stockholm, Stone gets serious about the art of illusion. But in Fooling Houdini, Alex Stone reveals a world far deeper and fascinating than I ever imagined. They pulled doves from their hats and deployed a lot of smoke. The magicians of my memory wore capes and makeup. Amazon Best Books of the Month, June 2012: Before reading this book, I thought magic was a little inane.
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