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Lev Grossman

@levgrossman.com

Bestselling writer of The Bright Sword, The Magicians trilogy, The Silver Arrow books and The Map of Tiny Perfect Things. And The God of Sleep.

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Lev Grossman@levgrossman.com · last wk.

Somehow I’ve ended up having to translate 120 or so lines of Gawain and the Green Knight from Middle English into modern, keeping the rhymes/rhythms/alliterations, and I definitely should not be doing it—because I'm totally unqualified—but it’s so much fun. Like D&D meets a crossword

Lev Grossman@levgrossman.com · 2w ago

Every day, like many times a day, I mentally complain to the person who made the PASTE AND MATCH STYLE combo (shift/option/command/V) in Pages so difficult. WHY MAKE SOMETHING SO USEFUL SO HARD

Lev Grossman@levgrossman.com · 2w ago

Virginia Woolf a front-runner for 20th century’s most relatable genius. From her diary: Thursday 16 January (1936) Seldom have I been more completely miserable than I was about 6.30 last night, reading over the last part of The Years. Such feeble twaddle—such twilight gossip it seemed ...

Lev Grossman@levgrossman.com · 2mo ago

This is the first and only chapter of The World in the Walls, Book One of the Fillory and Further series by Christopher Plover, which are the books-within-the-books of the Magicians trilogy. I wish I could write more, but I can’t open.substack.com/pub/levgross...

The Wonderful Clock

This is the first and only chapter of The World in the Walls, Book One of the Fillory and Further series by Christopher Plover. I wish I could write more, but I can't

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Lev Grossman@levgrossman.com · 3mo ago

My wife is doing a podcast episode on T.S. Eliot and I said I don’t know much about Eliot but Alfred J. Prufrock was the worst Flintstones character ever

A Peanuts comic strip panel with Charlie Brown saying "I get my laughs" as he runs away from Patty
Drew Broussard@drewsof.bsky.social · 6mo ago

“He looked up at the empty clouds, and as he died he wondered, not for the first time but for the very last, why it should be that we are made for a bright world, but live in a dark one.” -- @levgrossman.com, THE BRIGHT SWORD

Paul Byrne@theplanetaryguy.com · 6mo ago

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

That's home. That's us.
Lev Grossman@levgrossman.com · 6mo ago

"I insisted that the god of sleep be shown on the toilet. So if anyone is offended by that, that is completely my fault." I talked to @publisherswkly.bsky.social about writing a picture book. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Four Questions for Lev Grossman

Following his 2020 foray into middle grade fiction, 'The Silver Arrow,' novelist Lev Grossman returns to the realm of children’s literature with his first picture book, 'The God of Sleep,' illustrated...

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Lev Grossman@levgrossman.com · 6mo ago

There are days when you feel like a fraud and wonder what the point of it all is. And then there's a day when you get a shout-out from Lin-Manuel Miranda on The Hamilcast

Lev Grossman@levgrossman.com · 6mo ago

In 2010 I was at Facebook headquarters to write a Person of the Year profile of Mark Zuckerberg for Time. Halfway through my reporting I was badly stuck for a lede, until I was sitting in a staff meeting that Zuckerberg was running ...