BEHIND THE CURTAIN — SEP 05 — 2024 — 5 MIN READ
The Secret Lives of Magicians — Tricks & Stories Behind the Magic
With humor, detailed research, and great characters, a new take on the genre — the people who lie for a living, beautifully.
Pull back the curtain and you will not find angels or demons. You will find people: road-worn, hilarious, slightly superstitious, carrying fifty years of other people’s secrets inside a two-hour act.
The Secret Lives of Magicians is about them — the tricks, the stories, the scars behind the magic. With humor, detailed research, and great characters, it offers a new take on the genre. It is not a book about how the trick works. It is a book about who pays for it.
Every illusionist in these pages understands the same law that governs the SuperPower verse: a secret shared too early is worthless, and a secret kept too long is a cage.
The magic, it turns out, was never the point. The magic is just the receipt for everything it cost.
“The greatest trick is honesty, performed badly on purpose.”
— PSI TRANSMISSION Nº 004
