Author: Gabriela Valencia

  • Beyond Belief: Harry Houdini in the Age of Alternative Facts

    Beyond Belief: Harry Houdini in the Age of Alternative Facts

    If you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you. Is that a bargain? Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass Independence Day Eve 1878, at the age of four, Hungarian-born Erik Weisz immigrates to the United States with his pregnant mother and four brothers. The Weisz-turned-Weiss family settles in Appleton, Wisconsin, and later, in a boarding house…