threading needles

Confabulist Keith Brown warmly and gently engages his audience in very non-threatening ways to help him test his sleights of hand and challenge his learnable skills of memory. Even when his tricks look like they’re going to fail, they don’t. An audience member’s cell phone that he’d magically conjured to ring didn’t, to the embarrassment of the Rogers’ subscriber. But then it did ring—ten minutes after the trick was over. Or was that part of the trick?

I’ve read Steven Galloway’s The Confabulist...