Eugene Burger’s “Series of Evocative Essays”

This collection aims to provoke thought, encouraging you to reflect on your magic, inspire practice, and ultimately enhance your close-up magic performances.

Contents:

• About the Writings
• Foreword by Channing Pollock
• Groundwork
• What Is Close-Up Magic?
• The Main Road
• The Bert Allerton Aspirin Tin Routine
• Hands
• Making Cigarettes Disappear
• The Pivot Vanish
• Up the Nose
• Using A Cigarette Pull
• A Question of Character
• Uncle Geek
• Three-Card Monte As A Magical Entertainment
• Magic Lectures
• Rosini’s Double Reverse
• Conversation at the Airport
• The Animated Matchbox
• Performing for Magicians
• Stealing
• Spirit Candle in the Bottle
• Books
• Sylvia’s Cards: An Excursion into Bizarre Magick
• Negative Thought
• The Haunted Pack
• Questions and Answers on the Haunted Pack
• Daydreaming and Imagination
• An Imaginary Conversation with Eugene Burger
• A Final Examination