Owen Benjamin has published his first book, HOW TO SLAY A WIZARD. It is smart and it is funny, and it is much deeper than you would ever tend to expect at first glance.
THE SECRET GUIDE TO WORD MAGIC
Spelling is called spelling. Cursive is called cursive. And the most dangerous man in comedy just wrote a book explaining why.
Owen Benjamin grew up hiding under a cardboard desk to survive a nuclear blast, eating margarine because the food pyramid said so, and learning about heroin from a cop who made him act out an overdose in school. He was taught he descended from a primate through random mutation, that he was spinning on a ball of liquid nickel inside an explosion that came from nothing, and that the stars he saw at night were already dead. Then he was tested on everything and told he was smart because he could repeat all of it.
He became a comedian instead.
How to Slay a Wizard is about the people who run the tricks, the tricks themselves, and the one lie at the root of every spell ever cast on a living man or woman. It is not a political book. It is not a religious book. It is a book about manipulation, who does it, how it works, and why it requires your participation to be effective.
Starting from the dictionary definition of “wizard” and working outward through the mechanics of hypnotic language, the economics of fiat currency, the psychology of the con, the architecture of propaganda, and the spiritual sickness that turns a liar into a monster, Owen dismantles every major spell of the modern age and shows you exactly what they have in common. Every spell follows the same structure. Every spell requires the same ingredient. And that ingredient is you.
This book will teach you what a wizard is, what an alchemist is, and why the difference matters. It shows how spells are structured like jokes that never deliver the punchline. It explains why the most forbidden word in America is forbidden and what the vampire myth is actually describing. It tells you how to spot a liar before the lies take root. And at the very end, the book exposes the one lie that has to be believed in order for any of it to work on you. It is so simple you might laugh. That’s the point.
Once you see the secret spells, you will never stop seeing them. And then the wizards can no longer deceive you.
HOW TO SLAY A WIZARD is available via Kindle, KU, and audiobook. Paperback and hardcover editions will be released in about a month. And even if you don’t use audiobooks, listen to the audiobook sample…