Ricky Jay

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1. Ricky Jay

   Author of Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women, Jay's Journal of Anomalies, Cards As Weapons

2. Dave Eggers

   Author of McSweeney's 19 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern No. 19), McSweeney's Issue 20 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern No. 20), McSweeney's Unpublished, Unknown, &/or Unbelievable (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern No.12)

3. Harlan Tarbell

   Author of Tarbell Course in Magic Vol. 2, Tarbell Course in Magic Vol. 3, Tarbell Course in Magic Vol. 4

4. Penn Jillette

   Author of Penn and Teller's How to Play with Your Food, Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends, Penn & Teller's How to Play in Traffic

5. Jim Steinmeyer

   Author of Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear, The Glorious Deception: The Double Life of William Robinson, aka Chung Ling Soo, the "Marvelous Chinese Conjurer"

6. Edward Gorey

   Author of Amphigorey Too, Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey, The Curious Sofa: A Pornographic Work by Ogdred Weary

7. Lawrence Weschler

   Author of Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Techno logy, Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences, Uncanny Valley: Adventures in the Narrative

8. James Randi

   Author of Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns and other Delusions, Conjuring: Being a Definitive History of the Venerable Arts of Sorcery, Prestidigitation, Wizardry, Deception, & Chicanery and of the Mountebanks & Scoundrels Who have Perpetrated these Subterfuges on a Bewildered Public, in short, MAGIC!

9. Donna Kossy

   Author of Kooks: A Guide to the Outer Limits of Human Belief

10. Milbourne Christopher

    Author of The Illustrated History of Magic

11. Nicholas A. Basbanes

    Author of A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books, A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World

12. Rosamond Wolff Purcell

    Author of Special Cases: Natural Anomalies and Historical Monsters, Finders, Keepers: Eight Collectors

13. Luc Sante

    Author of Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York

14. V. Vale

    Author of Pranks! (Re-Search # 11)

15. Karl Johnson

    Author of The Magician and the Cardsharp: The Search for America's Greatest Sleight-of-Hand Artist

16. Tom Standage

    Author of The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine

17. Charles Mackay

    Author of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

18. Cecil Adams

    Author of The Straight Dope

19. J. B. Bobo

    Author of Modern Coin Magic

20. Eric Martin

    Author of Donald