by Lev Grossman
Lev Grossman
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born
June 26, 1969
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Lexington, MA, The United States
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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Literature & Fiction
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February 2009
about this author
Lev Grossman is a senior writer and book critic for TIME magazine and author of the international bestselling novel Codex. He is also the creator of the Time blog Nerd World (www.nerdworld.blogs.time.com). Grossman holds degrees in comparative literature from Harvard and Yale. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
You can read the first three chapters of The Magicians online at Viking's website.
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I finally broke down and watched the first episode of BSG last night. It sucked.
Psych!
Can someone please tell me what the hell is going on? Why do the Cylons appear every 33 minutes? What's with the doctor and the hot blonde Cylon? Does this stuff get revealed at some point? Is 33 the first [...:]
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Psych!
Can someone please tell me what the hell is going on? Why do the Cylons appear every 33 minutes? What's with the doctor and the hot blonde Cylon? Does this stuff get revealed at some point? Is 33 the first [...:]
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August 2009,
Lev Grossman
"I think everybody feels a bit out of place in life—like they've been slightly miscast or incorrectly routed. We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn't, we start looking around for the real world." ...More
"I think everybody feels a bit out of place in life—like they've been slightly miscast or incorrectly routed. We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn't, we start looking around for the real world." ...More
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"He looked like a child who had been slightly misdelivered, with some subpar forceps handling by the attending."
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""Something must be going on deep in his subconscious, he thought, some kind of redecoration, refurbishment, reupholstering that required a lot of downtime - some shadowy application running in the background, performing unknown operations, consuming huge chunks of psychic ram.""
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"The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore."
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