Author, creator, and iconic mentalist Max Maven joins 793.8 for the first of a two part episode sharing the books that have influenced him and some of the steps that go into creating his own volumes.

Titles mentioned in this Episode

• Magic Tricks and Card Tricks – Wilfred Jonson
• Abra (Goodliffe’s Abracadabra) – Magic Magazine
• Majick Magazine
• The Fine Art of Magic – George Kaplan
• Winky Dink – Television show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5TdRhNLOPk&t=107s
• Duck Amuck – Looney Tunes Cartoon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XvXsuSJ-1A
• Scientific American Columns – Martin Gardner
• Max Maven’s Mind Games – Videocassette https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkjQFkHmR2Y
• The Jinx – Collected run of Magazine
• The Phoenix – Collected run of Magazine
• The Annotated Alice – Martin Gardner & Lewis Carroll
• Our Magic – Maskelyne and Devant
• The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley – Stephen Minch and Alex Elmsley
• The Books of Wonder – Stephen Minch and Tommy Wonder
• Author Robert Parrish
• Author Eugene Burger
• Author Robert Neale
• Houdini: The Man Who Walked Through Walls - William Lindsay Gresham
• Illusion Show – David Bamberg
• Milo and Roger – Arthur Brandon
• Harpo Speaks – Harpo Marx
• Call it Sleep – Henry Roth
• The Death and Resurrection Show – Rogan Taylor
• Mathematics, Magic and Mystery – Martin Gardner
• An Emotional Memoir of Franz Kline - Fielding Dawson
• Einstein’s Dreams – Alan Lightman
• Metropolitan Life, Social Studies – Fran Lebowitz
• Author Jorge Luis Borges