Lev Grossman
Lev Grossman
Lev Grossman is an American novelist and journalist, notably the author of the novels Warp, Codex, The Magicians, The Magician King, and The Magician's Land. He is a senior writer and book critic for TIME...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth26 June 1969
CountryUnited States of America
majority forgotten ends
The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all - in the end the vast majority of them simply aren't that great, and are destined to be forgotten.
country writing practice
One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing an increasing intolerance for the time-honored practice of printing information on paper and shipping it around the country.
book mets hated
How often have I met and disliked writers whose books I love; and conversely, hated the books and then wound up liking the writer? Too often.
book thinking goal
My ultimate goal is to drive people back to the books, when I think of an adaptation.
way tribes east
I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.
book sanctity reverence
I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy books.
reading fans potters
I have spent many, many hours reading J.K. Rowling's work. I am a known 'Harry Potter' fan.
asking way fantasy
I feel that's one of the central questions of fantasy. What did we lose when we entered the 20th and 21st century, and how can we mourn what we lost, and what can we replace it with? We're still asking those questions in an urgent way.
mother thinking facts
Supposedly I've got traces of an English accent, though I can't hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who's English, and then I think it was exacerbated by the fact that I live with an Australian.
book defined
Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.
book fiction adults
My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
writing important tables
It's very important, at least to me as a writer, that there be some rules on the table when I'm writing. Rules come from genres. You're writing in a genre, there are rules, which is great because then you can break the rules. That's when really exciting things happen.
book like-you terrible
It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it.
country house england
I've stayed in houses that were in the country, and in England, but I'm still not sure that I've stayed in an English country house.