Failing again. Failing better.
Lev Grossman’s THE MAGICIAN’S LAND is the final book in his trilogy that also includes THE MAGICIANS and THE MAGICIAN KING. While I enjoyed the earlier books’ take on Harry Potter and Narnia, I found this last book to be the most enjoyable not because of the magic (as great as that was), but because…
When news spread of Ray Bradbury’s passing yesterday, a few authors posted articles I wanted to pass along to the fans that would miss him. Neil Gaiman copied to his online journal an introduction to Bradbury’s THE MACHINERIES OF JOY. He also wrote an article about Bradbury as his friend for the Guardian. David Brin…
I came across this blog post earlier today. Molly Flatt covered a speech by Lev Grossman (@leverus) at the Oxford Literary Festival in which he focused on genre versus literary fiction. He traced the division of fiction into literary fiction and genre, and he explained the various institutions that reinforced this division over time. He…
The Magician King is part two (I assume) of Lev Grossman’s (@leverus) trilogy that began with his 2009 book, The Magicians. The Magicians told the tale of Quentin Coldwater, a nerdy but brilliant teenager still obsessing over a childhood series of books based in the Narnia-like land of Fillory. Quentin is accepted into the magical…