Mira
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Lev Grossman:
Did writing the Magicians have a dulling effect on your mood? Or did it feel good to let loose all the emotions?
Lev Grossman
The second one. In a way writing the books was a way for me to feel emotions that I was otherwise having trouble accessing, if that means anything. Like when I was writing The Magician's Land, my father was very ill, and I knew he was going to die. And you can see his death echoing through the book, refracted in different ways in different situations ... I had a complicated relationship with him, and I think I was trying to figure out how to feel about his death.
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Michael Wei
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Lev Grossman:
You mentioned in another answer that the trilogy is like Quentin's coming-of-age story. What does it mean to come of age as a magician? I can tell from the aimlessness of Alice's parents that you don't necessarily find your calling even with all the resources in the world.
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