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
books erased graduated job notes passages people sent year
The year after I graduated college I had a job in a library. When people underlined passages in the library books, or made notes in the margins, the books were sent to me. I erased the lines and the notes. Yes, that was my job.
almost books buy collector copy couple edition exactly except incredibly looks love might second specialty third
My specialty as a collector is books that almost have value. When I love a book, I don't buy the first edition, because those have become incredibly expensive. But I might buy a beat-up copy of the second edition, third printing, which looks almost exactly the same as the first edition except that a couple of typos have been fixed.
book knuckles internet
I'm not one of your knockabout, knuckle-scarred, Internet-controversy-courting book critics. Occasionally I stumble into controversy accidentally, but not because I enjoy it. It's probably just because I'm a weird person.
book reading school
I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever read about endings was Peter Brooks' 'Reading for the Plot. '
book years sky
Every year the literary press praises dozens if not hundreds of novels to the skies, asserting explicitly or implicitly that these books will probably not be suffering water damage in the basements of their authors' houses 20 years from now. But historically, anyway, that's not the way the novelistic ecology works.
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.
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.
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.
book like-you terrible
It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it.
attitude book sacred
Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred again.
reader booksellers
Being a writer can be isolating. It's good to be among readers and booksellers.
book way lucky
Book tours are excellent things, and one is lucky to get to go on one, but they have a way of leeching away one's will to live.