Articles

  • 3 weeks ago | levgrossman.substack.com | Lev Grossman

    A Season in Hell is a series of journal entries I wrote in 2022-23 chronicling the last few torturous months I spent working on my novel The Bright Sword. If you want to take it from the top, start here. January 27I notice that I’ve stopped checking in with other writers’ books before I start writing for the day. I don’t need them anymore, I’ve reached the point in the project—only seven years in!—where I actually know what I want to say and how I want to say it.

  • 2 months ago | levgrossman.substack.com | Lev Grossman

    A Season in Hell is a series of journal entries I wrote in 2022-23, chronicling the last few torturous months I spent working on my novel The Bright Sword. If you want to take it from the top, start here. January 10Question: early Christians referred to the Celts (and all the other polytheists) as pagans. But that was a derogatory term, along the lines of “filthy heathen.” I doubt the pagans used it to describe themselves. But then what word did they use?

  • 2 months ago | levgrossman.substack.com | Lev Grossman

    I’ve seen other writers do this, where they post a kind of broad-spectrum update on where all their various projects are at, and I always find it voyeuristically fascinating. And also a bit envy-making, when I see all the stuff that other people have goin’ on.

  • Jan 6, 2025 | levgrossman.substack.com | Lev Grossman

    This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please turn on JavaScript or unblock scripts

  • Nov 25, 2024 | levgrossman.substack.com | Lev Grossman

    A Season in Hell is a series of journal entries I wrote in 2022-23, chronicling the last few torturous months I spent working on my novel The Bright Sword—going from stuck to unstuck. If you want to take it from the top, start here. December 26Christmas has a weird, looking-glass vibe in Australia because it’s really hot and the trees are all wrong.

Try JournoFinder For Free

Search and contact over 1M+ journalist profiles, browse 100M+ articles, and unlock powerful PR tools.

Start Your 7-Day Free Trial →

X (formerly Twitter)

Followers
30K
Tweets
11K
DMs Open
Yes
Lev Grossman
Lev Grossman @leverus
9 Apr 25

I'll be at the Melbourne Writers Festival in May! Details here: https://t.co/BiRG6oAZZF https://t.co/mgD5ceDINF

Lev Grossman
Lev Grossman @leverus
8 Apr 25

The Kindle edition of The Magicians is 99p this month at Amazon UK. You'd be crazy not to ... https://t.co/mzdfpFv7Vy

Lev Grossman
Lev Grossman @leverus
7 Apr 25

Tonight (or if like me you're in Australia, tomorrow morning) my twin brother Austin and are going to talk books and writing online, presented by the National Arts Club. Sign up here: https://t.co/l8SDNOSpLy https://t.co/WcDg826M0U