Reddit reviews Magic by Misdirection

Some excellent Books on the subject:

Magic and Showmanship by Henning Nelms

Magic by Misdirection by Dariel Fitzkee (The entire Fitzkee Trilogy is great!)

Five Points of Magic by Juan Tamariz

Strong Magic by Darwin Ortiz

Maximum Entertainment by Ken Webber

Books of Wonder by Tommy Wonder (I highly recommend these books for every magician - if you find them, get them!)

I feel like most people would be disappointed to learn the secret behind most magic tricks.

Camera tricks, like cutting to different angles to hide certain elements, are different because the magician doesn’t have that same luxury with the live audience and so what is shown on camera should reflect what is shown to the live audience.

I’m currently reading Magic by Misdirection by Dariel Fitzkee and it has a really interesting point about how a person who hears music on a radio doesn’t consider it magical even though they don’t know how it works. They just assume the technology does work and move on. Similarly, if a magician is using a prop or piece of technology and it is clear that the trick is done using this technology, they will just assume that’s how it is done and will be less impressed. So in modern magic acts that use things like iPads, something needs to happen that makes the audience go, “Even though I get that the iPad is doing some of this, I don’t understand how they did THAT.”


Magic by Misdirection