Author Elimination with Lev Grossman: Eliot Versus the World

Having Evil Monkey'd Lev Grossman re his article in the Wall Street Journal, and having seen a lot of serious stuff thrown around out there, I thought it was only fair to interview Grossman for Amazon–in, er, a less serious vein. I thought he was a very good sport.

Amazon.com: How would you explain James Joyce's Ulysses to a 12-year-old child? Is there a children's book or YA equivalent you could reference?

Lev Grossman: I guess you could get away with saying that it's a story about an Irish...