Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women Monday, August 10 2009.

• A cult classic and a work of remarkable scholarship restored to print. Ricky Jay is one of the world's great sleight-of-hand artists. He is also a most unusual and talented scholar, specializing in the bizarre, exotic, and fantastic side of the human species. The youngest magician to have appeared on television, Jay has become well known for his astonishing stage show as well as for his cameos in such movies as Glengarry Glen Ross and, most recently, Boogie Nights. Jay's unparalleled collection of books, posters, photographs, programs, broadsides, and, most important, data about unjustifiably forgotten entertainers all over the world made this unique book possible. An investigation into the inspired world of sideshows, circuses, and singularly talented performers, Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women is history of the most unusual--and irresistible--sort.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women Thursday, July 30 2009.

• Added a contributor: Ricky Jay: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women Thursday, July 16 2009.

• Sitting in front of a blackboard, Harry Kahne wrote five different words simultaneously with pieces of chalk held in each hand, each foot, and his mouth.