Lifetime Achievement Award 2024
June 21, 2024Body
We are thrilled to conclude our week of celebrations of the Allan Slaight Awards by recognizing author, historian, publisher Stephen Minch, with the Lifetime Achievement Award!
Giacomo Bertini’s System for Amazement
February 27, 2019Body
How amazing? Jamy Ian Swiss declares this to be “a book of coin magic that reflects genuine innovation, useful sleights, and beautiful magic routines—a substantial and unarguably important addition to the literature of coin magic.”
July 28, 2017
Recorded in Calgary, Alberta by Larry Thornton.
The Aretalogy of Vanni Bossi
December 25, 2016Body
In the December Lyon's Den feature, Jamy Ian Swiss reviews The Aretalogy of Vanni Bossi by Stephen Minch, and explores the innovative methods, clever sleight-of-hand, and magical plots created by the Italian maestro of close-up magic, Vanni Bossi.
Review: Dai Vernon, MUM Magazine
June 01, 2006Body
This book is a compelling read and an example of scholarship that will likely survive as the Vernon biography. It surely ranks among the very best of magic biographies and autobiographies given us to enjoy.