Lev Grossman

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.

Nov 13, 2024 | time.com | Eliana Dockterman |Lev Grossman

These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. By Eliana DocktermanNovember 13, 2024 8:09 AM ESTArthurian legends have been passed down for centuries. There would seem to be little left to mine from the story of the king who pulled a sword from a stone.

Oct 6, 2024 | booksamillion.com | Lev Grossman

{ "item_title" : "Magicians (Books-A-Million Exclusive)", "item_author" : [" Lev Grossman "], "item_description" : "Now available in an exclusive cover!Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. A high school math genius, he's secretly fascinated with a series of children's fantasy novels set in a magical land called Fillory, and real life is disappointing by comparison.

Oct 5, 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 18How much or how little is a novel supposed to tell you about what it’s actually about? These are the kinds of micro-decisions that novelists agonize over.

Sep 29, 2024 | theatlantic.com | Lev Grossman

There’s a strange new star in the sky, so bright that you can see it by day. It brings with it unseasonably hot weather and bizarre phenomena that defy scientific explanation. To some, the star is an astronomical marvel; to others, it’s a portent of doom. This is the premise of The Shooting Star, a comic book starring the plucky young Belgian journalist Tintin, published in 1942. It’s also, more recently, the premise of a series of novels by the celebrated Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard.