On a Friday evening in July 1925, about 30 people crowded into a basement on West 88th Street in Manhattan for a presentation ...
Richard Hatch gave up a career as a physicist to become a magician — and a one-man historical preservation society dedicated to a German author killed in the Holocaust. By David Segal In the novel, ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Canadian author Steven Galloway explores the fickle nature of memory in "The Confabulist," his book about the life and death of one of the world's most famous magicians, Harry ...