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	JS Online: Magical 'Carter' spins the stuff of dreams and illusion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The springboard of "Carter Beats the Devil," Glen David Gold's rich entertainment about magician Charles Carter IV, is a 1923 show in which President Warren G. Harding, packing a terrible secret, asks Carter whether he can participate in the show.
		It takes many pages for Gold to convey all this, and at times he is windy, providing detail that affirms the authenticity of his reportage but saps his narrative drive.
		Gold weaves many characters into an open-ended and fabulous tall tale that plays on the reader's sense of wonder like the recent movies "Shrek" and "Chicken Run." Like those morally grounded forays into fantasy, "Carter Beats the Devil" appeals to the inner child.
	www.jsonline.com /enter/books/sep01/bk.beat23092101.asp?format=print (549 words)

	Magician rose from flickers of childhood - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
		It is characteristic of Gold's world view and of his writing that dry humor cushions the somewhat dark reasons for this fascination: "I was convinced that this was what adults did in the middle of the night; important stuff that they couldn't share with kids.
		During this period, when Gold was living in an apartment in a sort of 1920s castle in Oakland, Calif., all hidden staircases and over-the-top rococo decor, his father played a key role again, presenting him with a 1926 poster for a magic show put on by the real Carter the Great.
		As Gold describes it, that was the kind of writer he was until, in his early 30s, he entered a writers' workshop at the University of California-Irvine and learned that cleverness isn't genius and that everybody could do with some editing.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2003/Apr/13/il/il03a.html (1325 words)

	Something Up His Sleeve - New York Times
		Gold's story enfolds a number of historical incidents, including the mysterious death of the philandering and scandal-ridden President Warren G. Harding, and the invention of television by an unassuming but brilliant Utah farm boy by the name of Philo T. Farnsworth.
		But at the heart and center of Gold's tale of intrigue, adventure, love and, of course, magic, is Charles Carter, a character based on the real-life magician Carter the Great, a fairly well-known practitioner of the craft during its golden age, from the 1890's to the 1920's.
		One of Gold's achievements is the way he captures the long-vanished world of vaudeville, a universe of endless travel and colorful ne'er-do-wells.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9405EFD6103BF933A0575AC0A9679C8B63 (620 words)

	Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: Glen David Gold
		Glen David Gold received his MFA for creative writing at the University of California at Irvine and has written for newspapers, film, and television.
		Glen David Gold's first novel, CARTER BEATS THE DEVIL, is wildly ambitious in scope, weaving the world of vaudeville magicians into the big picture early 20th century history.
		Read on as Bookreporter.com writer Bob Ruggiero talks with Gold about his work, pop culture and all kinds of hocus pocus.
	www.bookreporter.com /authors/au-gold-glen-david.asp (1206 words)

	CNN.com - Glen David Gold tells a magical tale - November 26, 2001
		Glen David Gold was inspired to write "Carter Beats the Devil" by an old poster of a magician.
		Gold was intrigued -- particularly when he discovered that Charles Carter was also involved, decades ago, in the building of Gold's Oakland, California, apartment building.
		But Gold escaped from the trap he had set for himself with research and imagination, and within a couple years he had written a novel.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/SHOWBIZ/books/11/26/glen.david.gold/index.html (775 words)

	Moviehole.net - Jude Law "Beats the Devil"?
		A scooper for Aint it Cool today mentions that Law is locked into starring in the adaptation of Glen David Gold's 'Carter Beats the Devil', alongside one of the mutants from "X-Men".
		Gold's debut novel opens with real-life magician Charles Carter executing a particularly grisly trick, using President Warren G. Harding as a volunteer.
		Gold has written for movies and TV, so it's no surprise that he delivers snappy, fast-paced dialogue and action scenes as expertly scripted as anything that's come out of Hollywood in years.
	www.moviehole.net /news/1590.html (678 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Glen David Gold - Books: Meet the Writers
		Glen David Gold’s Carter Beats the Devil was a remarkable first novel -- except that it wasn’t a first novel.
		Gold, an alumnus (along with Michael Chabon and wife Alice Sebold, among others) of the University of California, Irvine’s vaunted writing program, was far from a novice by the time Carter was released in 2001.
		Gold -- who cites influences including Paul Bowles, John Irving and comic artist Stan Lee -- was already an aficionado of the time period.
	www.barnesandnoble.com /writers/writerdetails.asp?userid=bsq1gAx5xD&cid=1016733 (519 words)

	immediacy: Carter Beats the Devil
		Glen David Gold's book has that magic, as well as the magician that I could never become, Charles Carter, as its hero and protagonist.
		Gold's sleight-of-hand is deft, as he takes real personages like Carter, President Warren G. Harding, and Harry Houdini, and performs a virtuoso illusion of history, a history that you want to believe in, because Gold's patter and delivery is so strong, and one that you don't regret having believed in because it is so good.
		Gold's is more of a thrill ride than Chabon's exegesis on how superheroes are an inherently American phenomenon.
	www.engel-cox.org /text/carter_beats_the_devil.html (507 words)

	BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Shazam! President Eaten by a Lion - New York Times
		Glen David Gold's first novel is immersed in the world of Houdini-era magicians, caught up in these stage performers' outlandish bravado and vaudeville flair.
		Gold takes as his main character, is described performing his grand theatrical act in the presence of President Warren G. Harding on Aug. 2, 1923.
		Gold has done prodigious research into the time period (from the late 1890's to the early 1920's) during which his story takes place.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9A06E4DC1E31F934A1575BC0A9679C8B63 (697 words)

	DAILY BRUIN ONLINE
		Gold noted that he and Sebold are both fans of isolation.
		Gold's "Carter Beats the Devil" could not be more different from "The Lovely Bones." Gold said his life-long enchantment with magic and the 1920s began when he was seven years old and reading about Margaret Dumont instead of playing outside.
		Gold blurs the lines of fiction and history in his dazzling novel about the enigmatic master illusionist, Carter the Great, whose riskiest stunt stars President Warren G. Harding hours before Harding's mysterious death.
	www.dailybruin.ucla.edu /news/printable.asp?id=27257&date=2/5/2004 (517 words)

	Alice Sebold, Glen David Gold Appear at UCLA... 12/10/2003
		Alice Sebold and Glen David Gold, two of today's most respected writers — who are also married to each other — visit Royce Hall in readings and discussion of their latest work, as part of UCLA Live's Spoken Word series at 8 p.m.
		Gold was born in Hollywood, Calif., at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, which years later became the Scientology Center.
		Tickets for Alice Sebold and Glen David Gold are available for $35, $25 and $20 at the UCLA Central Ticket Office at the southwest corner of the James West Alumni Center, online at www.uclalive.org and at all Ticketmaster outlets.
	newsroom.ucla.edu /page.asp?RelNum=4785 (891 words)

	Review \| Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold
		Gold stacks the first chapter of Carter Beats the Devil with such a profusion of quirky characters, coy historical references and red herrings that the story comes near to exploding in his face from an excess of cleverness.
		Gold redeems himself in the subsequent chapters of this often elegantly written book.
		Gold adds to this mix a group of conniving San Francisco entrepreneurs, a brilliant young scientist, a librarian with the hots for Griffin and a mysterious blind woman Carter meets in the park while walking Baby, his pet tiger.
	www.januarymagazine.com /crfiction/carterbeatsdevil.html (1057 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Live Online
		Author Glen David Gold's book, "Carter Beats the Devil" (Hyperion Books, 2002), recalls the Roaring Twenties, pre-Depression America, and the country's obsession with magic that helped them bring excitement to people's lives and help them forget their troubles.
		Gold holds an MFA for creative writing at the University of California at Irvine and has written for newspapers, film, and television.
		Glen David Gold: I think magic is that which you can't explain away with easy answers and luckily that's a broad enough explanation that no matter how much we know, there will always be the inexplicable.
	discuss.washingtonpost.com /zforum/02/sp_book_gold092602.htm (1529 words)

	Glen David Gold Carter Beats the Devil Reviewed by Katie Dean
		Glen David Gold has a strong interest in magic or conjuring and it is this that inspires this novel.
		Whilst this is in no way meant to be a biography of the man, Gold has carried out a great deal of research into Carter's life and uses it to weave a clever mix of fact and fiction.
		Gold cleverly adds more and more strands to the story, all intersecting and constantly becoming further entangled until we are left with one gigantic knot that, as if by magic, unravels just as it began, at a performance given by Carter.
	trashotron.com /agony/reviews/2003/gold-carter-dean.htm (703 words)

	Locus Online: Book Review by Claude Lalumière
		In comparison, Glen David Gold's Carter Beats the Devil is a much milder affair, but it's a rousing read and, in its way, another example of a mainstream novel concerning itself with matters sciencefictional.
		Gold's novel is an expansive historical novel of Americana somewhat in the vein of Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and Caleb Carr's The Alienist.
		Finally, Gold explores the reactions that television—a technology with the potential to radically change society (which we know it fulfilled)—evoke in a wide array of people, from technicians, scientists, and entertainers to capitalists, elected officials, and generals.
	www.locusmag.com /2001/Reviews/Lalumiere09.html (1797 words)

	National Undergraduate Literature Conference
		She is married to writer, Glen David Gold.
		Glen David Gold received his MFA from the University of California, Irvine.
		Gold lives in southern California with his wife, novelist Alice Sebold, where he is trying to finish his second novel without dislodging the cats from his lap.
	departments.weber.edu /ce/conferences/nulc/speakers/2006.htm (462 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Glen David Gold - Carter Beats the Devil: A Novel at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Since Gold is writing a fictional story around a real-life figure, he sticks closely to the world that Charles Carter would have known.
		Gold paints his characters so richly that at times I could have sworn that I was backstage among the performers, just another member of the company.
		Gold opened my heart and mind to a time about which I new little, while drawing me into a story so wonderful and full of hope and optimism that I left the book with a smile on my face.
	www.epinions.com /content_89336614532 (1146 words)

	MagicTimes News Archives - Week Of September 3-9, 2001
		Glen David Gold's "Carter Beats the Devil" is reviewed in the Washington Post where they reprint an excerpt on how to vanish an elephant.
		Gold has drawn from actual history and how detailed he is in outlining stage illusions.
		David Acer, Richard Sanders, Mystina, Tommy Garbin, Wesley Edberg, Brandon Scott, Brad Cummings, and Tony Daniels appear at the Magic Castle in Los Angeles on Sep. 10-16.
	www.magictimes.com /archives/2001/2001-09_03-09.htm (1381 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Books: The American Voice: Jonathan Franzen's "The Corrections," and other new releases
		Gold takes the 1923 death of President Harding as his jumping-off point and from there moves back and forth filling in both Harding's and Carter's biographical details.
		Gold quickly creates a hybrid novel that's part historical fiction, part chase story, part love story, and then tosses in a wealth of more history.
		As written by Gold, Carter was a showboating performer in search of the perfect illusion, fending off scheming competitors, while running from the G-Men who want to ask him about his involvement with Harding.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2001-09-21/books_roundup9.html (218 words)

	Gold Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Tracey Gold was well known to television audiences in the 80s as the wholesome teenage sister on the long-running series "Growing Pains." But behind the smiles Tracey was fighting the battle of her life--a serious eating disorder.
		Dore Gold, former Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. and internationally known Middle East expert, uses previously unpublished intelligence documents to piece together the links between the current wave of global terrorism--from the World Trade Center to Bali, Indonesia--and the ideology of hatred taught in the schools and mosques of Saudi Arabia.
		In this celebration of the basic, the unique, and the imperfections in life, Taro Gold leads readers to discover the true beauty of their lives, and to reveal the most powerfully positive sides of imperfection.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Gold (1321 words)

	The Campus Chronicle
		There is something Raymond Chandler-esque about Gold’s writing and Chabon-esque about his story that is completely enticing.
		That said, it is important to realize that Gold’s writing, though strong, is not as strong as his ability to tell a story.
		Where Chabon both tells a great story and sets new standards for the literature of his peers, Gold merely creates a richly imagined fantasy world amidst charmingly pompous quotes by Albert Einstein and Howard Thurston and through which we, as the audience, are happily free to wander.
	www.thecampuschronicle.com /archive/vol_3/02_21/book.html (179 words)

	Glen David Gold Carter Beats the Devil Revewed by Rick Kleffel
		Glen David Gold achieves a similar level of detail and enjoyability with a completely different style and feel in 'Carter Beats the Devil'.
		What Gold does remarkably well in this novel is to keep a sunny disposition, a positive attitude and the reader's patience and attention.
		Gold's great accomplishment is to do this with a smile, and to pass that smile seamlessly on to the reader.
	www.trashotron.com /agony/reviews/gold-carter_beats_devil.htm (474 words)

	MagicTimes News Archives - Week Of December 24-30, 2001
		Glen David Gold who wrote "Carter Beats The Devil" is interviewed in Newsday where he spoke of his research, "Almost every single magician in literature ends up being a metaphor.
		Describing the connection between magic and writing Gold said, "If I was trying to do anything on a literary level with this book, it was to defeat the whole process of the suspension of disbelief.
		David Blaine's influence has just gone beyond cultivating a generation of close-up magicians who dream of entertaining strangers on street corners to people who want to freeze themselves in ice cubes.
	www.magictimes.com /archives/2001/2001-12_24-30.htm (1368 words)

	Bookreporter.com - CARTER BEATS THE DEVIL by Glen David Gold
		Its central character is real-life magician Charles Carter, one of the best-known performers in magic's golden age and a contemporary of Houdini.
		Gold's writing is at its best in the sections taking place on and behind the stage and his meticulous research into the show business of the era.
		Less successful is Gold's portrayal of bumbling Secret Service agents, both on Carter's trail and at war with their brethren.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0786867345.asp (515 words)

	'Carter Beats the Devil' stumps many readers - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
		Gold told me: "Someone who should have known better (someone who should REALLY have known better) asked who the old guy on the island was." Both the old lady and the old guy are key to resolving a mystery that's a central question of "Carter Beats the Devil."
		But this book had many mysteries and many subplots, so many characters and so much action that it's no wonder some folks felt like weavers with too many colors of yarn between their fingers — let one slip and it was lost forever.
		This is a question Gold declines to answer because, he says, if he says it's real, the reader wishes it were made up, and vice versa.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2003/May/18/il/il08a.html (1488 words)

	Alice Sebold - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She tells her story from heaven looking down as her family tries to cope with the death of their oldest daughter.
		While working on Lovely Bones Sebold met her husband Glen David Gold at UCI in 1995.
		Sebold began talking with Glen Gold and they were married in November of 2001 [5].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alice_Sebold (761 words)

	the pathetic caverns - books by author - Glen David Gold
		In my perfect world, Tim Powers would be a household name, and although Powers' historical fictions incorporate overtly fantastic elements in a way that Gold's novel does not, a comparison between the two might still be useful.
		The two writers are similar not only in tone, but also in priorities: Gold's prose is confident, and several of the supporting cast as well as Carter are given considerable depth of character, but good writing is there to serve the story, rather than the other way around.
		Gold's language is no match for the ebuillience of Chabon's rich and detailed descriptions, nor does he strive for the same thematic depth.
	www.pathetic-caverns.com /books/g/glen_david_gold.html (247 words)

	Powell's Books - Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold
		Glen David Gold's literary debut dazzled critics and fans from coast to coast.
		The response to Glen David Gold's debut novel, Carter Beats the Devil was extraordinary.
		"I've been a practicing magician for over forty years and Glen Gold has completely baffled me. His historically based novel, Carter Beats the Devil, is layered with accurate descriptions of strange-looking apparatuses, the distinct language used by magicians, and with eccentric personalities that existed only during the heyday of vaudeville.
	www.powells.com /biblio?PID=28666&cgi=product&isbn=0786886323&campaign=bookswelike (1070 words)

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