Fredrick Turner

Reflections

Book review

Book review

  • The Phoenix: Volume 1 Number 12

    Yeah, I know. It’s been awhile since the last installment. Number 12 is all Lu Brent. According to Genii’s Magipedia: Lu Brent (1903 – 1993) was a semi-professional magician starting in 1927. He specialized in small magic. His legal name was Benjamin Joseph Lubrant. The name Lu Brent came accidentally, from a clerk’s mistake, when Continue reading

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  • Book Notes: Maltese Falcon

    John Huston’s 1941 film, The Maltese Falcon, is an amazing film. It had a great cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sidney Greenstreet, and Peter Lore. Like many films, it was first a novel. Written by Dashiell Hammett, the novel is not only a great detective story but it’s very well written. To John Huston’s credit, Continue reading

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  • Book Notes: We Need Your Art

    Awhile back, my wife sent me a link to a TEDX talk entitled The Case For Making Your Art When The World Is On Fire. The presenter was Aimee McNee. She makes the argument that making art isn’t self indulgent but an imperative – a radical act of creation. She’s funny, engaging and inspiring. It’s Continue reading

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  • Book Notes: Battle for the Big Top

    I remember seeing the circus when I was young – probably around first grade or maybe younger. Curiously it’s one of the few childhood memories I have retained as I don’t remember much of that time. It was in the long gone Forbes Field in Pittsburgh – the site of the University of Pittsburgh business Continue reading

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  • Book Notes: MaddAddam

    MaddAddam is the final book in Margaret Atwood’s trilogy of the same name. Like its predecessors, the novel takes place in a world of climate change, the aftermath of a deadly plague, and the consequences of genetic engineering. While Oryx and Crake was Jimmy aka Snowman’s story and The Year of the Flood focused on Continue reading

  • Book Notes: The Year of the Flood

    This is the second novel in the MaddAddam trilogy by Margaret Atwood. Like Oryx and Crake, I read this about twenty years ago. However time and many other books have written over my memory and it was all new again. The Year of the Flood focuses on the lives of two women, Ren and Toby, Continue reading

  • Book Notes: Comedy, Character & Control

    This is not my typical magic book to read as I have always struggled with the idea of a comedy magician. (Aside: I also have a struggle with magicians who bill themselves as motivational speakers but that’s best left for another day.) I believe that magic is inherently funny – weird and unusual things happen Continue reading

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