Lev Grossman
@levgrossman.com
Bestselling writer of The Bright Sword, The Magicians trilogy, The Silver Arrow books and The Map of Tiny Perfect Things
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imagine this right before book two #themagicians
January 10, 2026 at 5:32 AM
imagine this right before book two #themagicians
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Mr Casaubon… the guy for Sophie? This week we treat listeners to the story behind the story of the greatness that is #GeorgeEliot.
🎧 Tune into our latest episode, wherever you get your podcasts! Plus, our #Middlemarch #BookClub, starts this week! 🔗👆 apple.co/slob
#SecretLifeOfBooks #BookSky
🎧 Tune into our latest episode, wherever you get your podcasts! Plus, our #Middlemarch #BookClub, starts this week! 🔗👆 apple.co/slob
#SecretLifeOfBooks #BookSky
January 1, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Mr Casaubon… the guy for Sophie? This week we treat listeners to the story behind the story of the greatness that is #GeorgeEliot.
🎧 Tune into our latest episode, wherever you get your podcasts! Plus, our #Middlemarch #BookClub, starts this week! 🔗👆 apple.co/slob
#SecretLifeOfBooks #BookSky
🎧 Tune into our latest episode, wherever you get your podcasts! Plus, our #Middlemarch #BookClub, starts this week! 🔗👆 apple.co/slob
#SecretLifeOfBooks #BookSky
If I'd remembered to post about it, THE GOD OF SLEEP was 25% off for pre-order at Barnes & Noble three days ago. It is now available for pre-order from many different retailers AT FULL PRICE!
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The God of Sleep
This charming and gorgeously illustrated book from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lev Grossman is the perfect read-aloud for putting little ones to b...
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January 4, 2026 at 9:16 AM
If I'd remembered to post about it, THE GOD OF SLEEP was 25% off for pre-order at Barnes & Noble three days ago. It is now available for pre-order from many different retailers AT FULL PRICE!
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/lev-g...
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/lev-g...
I'm 27 pages into SLOW GODS by Claire North and I can't remember the last time I read a book that I so badly wish I'd written
January 3, 2026 at 3:24 PM
I'm 27 pages into SLOW GODS by Claire North and I can't remember the last time I read a book that I so badly wish I'd written
I'll be teaching SF and fantasy for a week in Aspen in June. Come join if you can
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January 2, 2026 at 8:25 PM
I'll be teaching SF and fantasy for a week in Aspen in June. Come join if you can
www.aspenwords.org/programs/sum...
www.aspenwords.org/programs/sum...
A belated link to my New Year's substack. Self-sabotage, touch-avoidance, cats of Istanbul, success, failure and fizzy wine
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Happy New Year to All
We made it! More or less
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January 2, 2026 at 8:19 PM
A belated link to my New Year's substack. Self-sabotage, touch-avoidance, cats of Istanbul, success, failure and fizzy wine
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Sapkowski named 3 books that made an impact on him lately: The Devils by Joe Abercrombie, The Rose Field by Philip Pullman and The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman.
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@joeabercrombie.com @levgrossman.com @thewitcher.com @inisvitre.bsky.social
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An Evening with Andrzej Sapkowski Part of Tales of the Weird: An Autumnal Festival
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December 27, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Sapkowski named 3 books that made an impact on him lately: The Devils by Joe Abercrombie, The Rose Field by Philip Pullman and The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman.
@joeabercrombie.com @levgrossman.com @thewitcher.com @inisvitre.bsky.social
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@joeabercrombie.com @levgrossman.com @thewitcher.com @inisvitre.bsky.social
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Would warmly welcome tips/recs for an ill-prepared traveler spending three days in Istanbul
December 27, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Would warmly welcome tips/recs for an ill-prepared traveler spending three days in Istanbul
A link to my (and Julia's) favorite poem in honor of the solstice. Though it hits different here in Sydney where it is in fact the longest day of the year.
A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day
By John Donne
'Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's,
Lucy's, who scarce seven hours herself unmasks...
A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day
By John Donne
'Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's,
Lucy's, who scarce seven hours herself unmasks...
John Donne
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
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December 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
A link to my (and Julia's) favorite poem in honor of the solstice. Though it hits different here in Sydney where it is in fact the longest day of the year.
A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day
By John Donne
'Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's,
Lucy's, who scarce seven hours herself unmasks...
A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day
By John Donne
'Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's,
Lucy's, who scarce seven hours herself unmasks...
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Fantastic article by @levgrossman.com about Leonard Woolf sharing a cottage with B.J. Dutton in Ceylon back in the day, and how they embodied the two great genres of Modernism and Fantasy... Loved it!
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The Death of a Civil Servant - Believer Magazine
Before he became the husband of Adeline Virginia Stephen—later a novelist of some considerable reputation—Leonard Woolf was a cadet in the Ceylon Civil Service. At Cambridge, Woolf had been a member o...
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December 20, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Fantastic article by @levgrossman.com about Leonard Woolf sharing a cottage with B.J. Dutton in Ceylon back in the day, and how they embodied the two great genres of Modernism and Fantasy... Loved it!
www.thebeliever.net/the-death-of...
www.thebeliever.net/the-death-of...
Today -- unless I'm getting it wrong -- is the 10th anniversary of the Magicians TV show!
The world seems unfathomably different now -- I feel unfathomably different from who I was back then -- but my love for the show and the people who made it is still going strong
The world seems unfathomably different now -- I feel unfathomably different from who I was back then -- but my love for the show and the people who made it is still going strong
December 17, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Today -- unless I'm getting it wrong -- is the 10th anniversary of the Magicians TV show!
The world seems unfathomably different now -- I feel unfathomably different from who I was back then -- but my love for the show and the people who made it is still going strong
The world seems unfathomably different now -- I feel unfathomably different from who I was back then -- but my love for the show and the people who made it is still going strong
The e-book of THE BRIGHT SWORD is currently $4.99 at Bookshop.org. IF NOT NOW, WHEN?!
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The Bright Sword: A Novel of King Arthur
A Novel of King Arthur
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December 12, 2025 at 1:26 AM
The e-book of THE BRIGHT SWORD is currently $4.99 at Bookshop.org. IF NOT NOW, WHEN?!
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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Magicians Fanworks Extravaganza celebrates the 10-year anniversary of the 1st episode of The Magicians! We love the show and the amazing books by @levgrossman.com 🍑 Dec. 8-16 on AO3/Tumblr, all types of fanworks welcome.
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#themagicians
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#themagiciansfanfic
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December 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Magicians Fanworks Extravaganza celebrates the 10-year anniversary of the 1st episode of The Magicians! We love the show and the amazing books by @levgrossman.com 🍑 Dec. 8-16 on AO3/Tumblr, all types of fanworks welcome.
#themagicians
#levgrossman
#themagiciansfanfic
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#themagicians
#levgrossman
#themagiciansfanfic
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Minor life hack: I'm always looking for ways to manage my phone addiction, and somebody suggested I turn on Color Filters and set to greyscale. Makes your lush colorful iPhone screen less interesting and more annoying.
November 29, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Minor life hack: I'm always looking for ways to manage my phone addiction, and somebody suggested I turn on Color Filters and set to greyscale. Makes your lush colorful iPhone screen less interesting and more annoying.
Applications for the 2026 George R.R. Martin Summer Intensive Writing Workshop are open -- it's for mid-career journalists who are writing their first novels. Due Jan. 12. THE PROGRAM COSTS NOTHING. It's entirely funded by GRRM.
www.medill.northwestern.edu/news/2025/ap...
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Applications for the 2026 George R.R. Martin Summer Intensive Writing Workshop are now open - Medill - Northwestern University
The third annual George R.R. Martin Summer Intensive Writing Workshop at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications is now accepting applications...
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November 29, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Applications for the 2026 George R.R. Martin Summer Intensive Writing Workshop are open -- it's for mid-career journalists who are writing their first novels. Due Jan. 12. THE PROGRAM COSTS NOTHING. It's entirely funded by GRRM.
www.medill.northwestern.edu/news/2025/ap...
www.medill.northwestern.edu/news/2025/ap...
Just my regular shoutout to the SECRET LIFE OF BOOKS, which is objectively one of the funniest and most brilliant books podcasts around. Though yes it is co-hosted by my wife Sophie, who's an English professor at Princeton
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Secret Life of Books
Books Podcast · Updated Weekly · Every book has two stories: the one it tells, and the one it hides.The Secret Life of Books is a fascinating, addictive, often shocking, occasionally hilarious weekly ...
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November 26, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Just my regular shoutout to the SECRET LIFE OF BOOKS, which is objectively one of the funniest and most brilliant books podcasts around. Though yes it is co-hosted by my wife Sophie, who's an English professor at Princeton
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
A nice mention of my dad in PEOPLE magazine, though probably not exactly how he would've imagined it
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November 22, 2025 at 11:02 PM
A nice mention of my dad in PEOPLE magazine, though probably not exactly how he would've imagined it
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people.com/who-is-elisa...
"The god of the sun
Has finished her run
Across the blue sky
Her day is done ..."
But it's not done! There's so much more. Coming March 26. Preorder here:
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Has finished her run
Across the blue sky
Her day is done ..."
But it's not done! There's so much more. Coming March 26. Preorder here:
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
November 21, 2025 at 6:59 AM
"The god of the sun
Has finished her run
Across the blue sky
Her day is done ..."
But it's not done! There's so much more. Coming March 26. Preorder here:
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Has finished her run
Across the blue sky
Her day is done ..."
But it's not done! There's so much more. Coming March 26. Preorder here:
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Back when I worked at Time magazine I wrote a piece calling George R.R. Martin “the American Tolkien.” Is it true? Who knows. WHAT AFTER ALL IS TRUTH REALLY.
But in my house, when I was a kid, the American Tolkien was Fritz Leiber. substack.com/home/post/p-...
But in my house, when I was a kid, the American Tolkien was Fritz Leiber. substack.com/home/post/p-...
That Other American Tolkien
When I was a child, the novels of Fritz Leiber were way more important to me than The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings. If anything Tolkien was the British Leiber
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November 18, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Back when I worked at Time magazine I wrote a piece calling George R.R. Martin “the American Tolkien.” Is it true? Who knows. WHAT AFTER ALL IS TRUTH REALLY.
But in my house, when I was a kid, the American Tolkien was Fritz Leiber. substack.com/home/post/p-...
But in my house, when I was a kid, the American Tolkien was Fritz Leiber. substack.com/home/post/p-...
I never see this mural at my gym without thinking of the Terrible Trivium from The Phantom Tollbooth and feeling proud of him for finally deciding to get in shape
November 16, 2025 at 4:42 AM
I never see this mural at my gym without thinking of the Terrible Trivium from The Phantom Tollbooth and feeling proud of him for finally deciding to get in shape
November 12, 2025 at 7:46 AM
c u r s e d w o r d l e
November 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
c u r s e d w o r d l e
A book that never fails to astound me when I reread it is Joanne Greenberg's semi-forgotten 1960s classic I NEVER PROMISED YOU A ROSE GARDEN.
October 31, 2025 at 6:43 AM
A book that never fails to astound me when I reread it is Joanne Greenberg's semi-forgotten 1960s classic I NEVER PROMISED YOU A ROSE GARDEN.
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@levgrossman.com has created this century’s Arthurian text. All others will be compared to this epic work of fantasy, heart, and grit. A story about faith and becoming who we were always meant to be, with the heart of a hero. Possibly THE contender for the @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social #booksky
October 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM
@levgrossman.com has created this century’s Arthurian text. All others will be compared to this epic work of fantasy, heart, and grit. A story about faith and becoming who we were always meant to be, with the heart of a hero. Possibly THE contender for the @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social #booksky
A few thoughts on Philip Pullman's new book THE ROSE FIELD (minor spoilers) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Philip Pullman’s Anti-Escapist Fantasy
In his fiction, the author of “The Golden Compass” tells us how to love this world. It isn’t easy.
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October 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
A few thoughts on Philip Pullman's new book THE ROSE FIELD (minor spoilers) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...