30 Sleights for the Modern Transsexual

We start simple: pretend you hold a deck of cards. Do not pick up a deck of cards no matter how convenient one may be. Feel the deck of cards in the palm of your dominant hand. Your hand is still, the stack is firm. Pinch either side of the deck with your thumb and forefinger, press harder than comes natural.

30 Sleights for the Modern Transsexual, Leo Leventhal's debut collection of linked short stories, is a house of cards collapsing in slow motion. Under her watchful eye, you can learn the secrets of coin tricks, riverboat gambling, and killing your past self--everything the modern transsexual needs to survive the cutthroat world of stage magic. 

Hand-sewn and bound with dyed cheesecloth, the first physical edition of 30 Sleights... was risograph printed by Gunkhole Press in Chicago in Spring 2025 on found construction paper.