![]() ![]() And none were interested in meeting a non-magician who was writing a novel about a magician. ![]() Ha - sneaking in two questions at once! Before I finished Carter, no, not a soul. Nelson Downs coin roll, but I find my knuckles are as pliable as fried chicken wings.ĭo you know any magicians? What did you do, or what books did you read, to help get over the feeling of a practicing magician's life? I tried, when I had writer's block, to do the T. I really wondered who this "Carter the Great" was, and when I found out he'd lived in my old neighborhood, I was hooked.Īre you a magician, or did you learn to do magic? Glen David Gold: My father bought me the magic poster that is now (with some Photoshop adjustment) on the cover of my book - this would be in.um.1991. ![]() We talked to Gold about the intersection between history and fiction, stage magicians then and now, and the possibility that he would quit writing and take up magic.ī: When did you first become interested in Charles Carter? Besides the great story, Carter has three color plates of magician's posters from the 1920s. Glen David Gold's Carter Beats the Devil (a September/October 2001 Book Sense 76 Pick*) melds history and fiction to produce a page-turner of a first novel. ![]()
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