![]() When Jay worked with a deck of cards, it's as though he lived in a different dimension than we do, a place where the laws of physics have been altered. ![]() This week, Sotheby's auctioned off part of his 10,000-item collection. During his life, he collected rare books, pamphlets, posters, handbills, broadsides, objects and apparatus documenting the histories of magic, circuses and eccentric characters. ![]() He also was a scholar of con games and of the human oddities and exotic performers who worked the freak shows and traveling carnivals. On today's show, we're going to listen back to our interviews with master magician Ricky Jay, who died in 2018 and was known in his time as the greatest living sleight-of-hand artist. I'm David Bianculli, professor of television studies at Rowan University in New Jersey, sitting in for Terry Gross.
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