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The Honest Liar

News, updates, thoughts and essays about magic, cooking, pizza, baseball, cinema and more, along with an occasional book review. Also a periodic feature revisiting entries from my Take Two series in tandem with past book reviews.

Jamy Ian Swiss Jamy Ian Swiss

Welcome to the Blog!

I am ready to go with a couple of brand new magic essays, for starters. I will also be releasing some previously unpublished material, including items written for The Magic of Johnny Thompson that did not make it into the book, along with a never-before-seen trick of Derek Dingle’s, that Derek showed to me some 25 years ago. I’ll also tell some stories, including something about how the actual writing of the John Thompson book came about and unfolded.

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