I still remember the first time I ever saw a ventriloquist in action. The legendary Edgar Bergen and his dummy sidekicks, Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd, appeared on an episode of The Muppet Show ...
Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism, by Steven Connor. Oxford, $35. How to Become a Ventriloquist, by Edgar Bergen. Dover Press, $4. In the pantheon of childhood nightmare fodder, ...