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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 24/08/2026

NYT crossword puzzle today! I make a handy three-letter clue

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 30/07/2026

I got the Queen Bee badge in the New York Times Spelling Bee game and it only took me 466 tries

a screenshot of the NY Times spelling bee game showing the Queen Bee achievement

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 20/07/2026

New Substack: The Plane Had No Markings levgrossman.substack.com/p/the-plane-...

Tintin in a hospital bed being questioned by Thomson and Thompson. "Look here: are you absolutely sure the plane had no registration marks?" Tintin: "Quite certain."

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 11/07/2026

I'm reasonably sure that I forgot to post about this incredible illustrated edition of THE MAGICIAN KING from @grimoakpress.bsky.social when the page for it went up at grimoakpress.com/products/the... (Incredible illustrations are by @christophershy.bsky.social)

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 12/06/2026

My wife is doing a podcast episode on T.S. Eliot and I said I don’t know much about Eliot but Alfred J. Prufrock was the worst Flintstones character ever

A Peanuts comic strip panel with Charlie Brown saying "I get my laughs" as he runs away from Patty

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 04/06/2026

As part of the Sydney Writers Festival I got to have this portrait taken by tintypecentral.com using a 19th-century "wet plate" photographic process. I love it -- I look like my own ancestor

an old-fashioned black-and-white portrait of writer Lev Grossman

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 31/05/2026

Sacre bleu! Utterly gorgeous new covers from my French publisher Neptune for MAGICIAN KING and MAGICIAN'S LAND

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 06/05/2026

This is going to be a really remarkable conversation, not least because the legendary Garth Nix (not shown) is going to be in on it too. May 23rd at the Sydney Writers Festival. www.swf.org.au/program/fest...

Fantasy writers Lev Grossman, R.F. Kuang and Garth Nix at the Sydney Writers Festival

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 21/04/2026

I've got a story in this anthology that's getting Kickstarted! So do a lot of other amazing writers, including Brandon Sanderson, Seanan McGuire, Christopher Paolini, Matt Dinniman, Delilah Dawson, Jim Butcher etc. www.kickstarter.com/projects/unb...

Unbroken: New Tales By Masters of Fantasy
An anthology of SF&F stories from Brandon Sanderson & Peter Orullian, Christopher Paolini, Seanan McGuire, Matt Dinniman and many more.

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 24/03/2026

Today is the official book birthday of THE GOD OF SLEEP! Written by me with gorgeous illustrations by Huynh Kim Liên -- for example this one of the God of Math, who is obviously doing some serious differential calculus or something in her head. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/lev-g...

the cover of THE GOD OF SLEEP, a picture book by Lev Grossman

A god of math in a sacred trance, with numbers whirling around her

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 23/03/2026

There are days when you feel like a fraud and wonder what the point of it all is. And then there's a day when you get a shout-out from Lin-Manuel Miranda on The Hamilcast

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 17/03/2026

The God of Sleep will be out in one week! In recognition of this, here is a detail from one of the pages. It is a cat riding on a graham cracker. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/lev-g...

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 17/03/2026

The God of Sleep will be out in one week! In recognition of this, here is a detail from one of the pages. It is a cat riding on a graham cracker. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/lev-g...

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 11/03/2026

(I'm posting about it here partly b/c I've never published a picture book before and don't really know how to get the word out about it. So if you have a small child who likes rhymes and irritable gods, well, have I got the book for you.)

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 04/03/2026

New Substack: levgrossman.substack.com/p/the-halfwa...

The Halfway Point: A Pep Talk
I wrote this for NaNoWriMo back in 2014. Now NaNoWriMo is gone -- and the Hunger Games theme is a little dated -- but writing novels is still hard

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 24/02/2026

I never realized till a kind soul pointed it out that my name is in the credits of KNIGHT OF THE 7 KINGDOMS. Bragging rights, how I love them

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 22/11/2025

A nice mention of my dad in PEOPLE magazine, though probably not exactly how he would've imagined it people.com/who-is-elisa...

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 21/11/2025

"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-...

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 16/11/2025

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

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 12/11/2025

win a free copy! hachettebookgroup.formstack.com/forms/shelfa...

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 31/10/2025

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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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 14/10/2025

The gorgeous signed illustrated edition of THE BRIGHT SWORD goes on sale tomorrow grimoakpress.com/products/the...

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 07/10/2025

The study also included the long-awaited Grossmans +5 Confusion Matrix, although it made me no less confused. In conclusion, one of us always tells the truth and the other one always lies, but science is powerless to determine which

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 07/10/2025

However, confoundingly, from a statistical POV my writing more closely resembles @chrisbohjalian.bsky.social's work than it does that of my own identical twin. Conversely his work more closely resembles @scalzi.com's work than it does mine. SEPARATED AT BIRTH?!

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 07/10/2025

If I'm reading this correctly, my writing is more likely to be misidentified as my brother's than his writing is likely to be misidentified as mine. MAKE OF THAT WHAT YOU WILL

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 19/09/2025

Unexpectedly large public art outside Esbjerg, Denmark

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 25/07/2025

I've got a piece in this upcoming anthology -- Kickstarter pre-launch page is here www.kickstarter.com/projects/unb...

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 19/07/2025

Monty Python in Aviles town square at midnight, in the rain — probably the best possible way to watch it Also Joe Abercrombie! Brilliant writer, super nice guy.

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 08/07/2025

The Bright Sword is out in paperback today! I’m celebrating tonight at Bookends & Beginnings in Evanston, and Thursday night at Books Are Magic in Brooklyn on Thurs. Come by!

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 08/07/2025

My first picture book is coming out next year! I’ve been working on it for a truly absurd amount of time.

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 29/06/2025

18th-century history out of context

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 07/06/2025

A tale of two paperbacks. Note the cheeky green of the UK version (late June), which I love, and also how thin the US version (July) is! I asked Viking if they would use slightly thinner paper for the paperback, because I thought the big hardcover was a bit intimidating.

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 27/05/2025

This fell off a broken stapler and I just can’t bring myself to throw it away

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 14/05/2025

Locus magazine does incredible work helping keep science fiction and fantasy vital and interesting. Please give to their fundraising campaign! I've donated a signed leatherbound (and gilded!) limited edition of THE BRIGHT SWORD as a perk www.indiegogo.com/projects/loc...

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 14/05/2025

The Magicians cast will be reuniting at Enchanticon in August www.enchanticon.com

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 13/05/2025

Novel Diary: Of course Mrs. Dalloway will get the fucking flowers herself. Also: romantasy, critics levgrossman.substack.com/p/a-season-i...

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 08/05/2025

This Saturday I'll be at the Melbourne Writers Festival, talking about THE BRIGHT SWORD and diverse other matters with the amazing @cspacat.bsky.social at 10:30am at the State Library mwf.com.au/program/lev-...

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 09/04/2025

I'll be at the Melbourne Writers Festival in May! Details here: mwf.com.au/program/lev-...

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 08/04/2025

A screenshot from this morning's conversation, courtesy of the great Daniel O'Malley. There is a strong resemblance (I'm the bottom one).

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 07/04/2025

Tonight (or if like me you're in Australia, tomorrow morning) my twin brother Austin and are going to talk books and writing online, presented by the National Arts Club. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-bright...

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 05/04/2025

My annual check for the one line I had in one Magicians episode. It keeps on giving!

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 03/04/2025

I love the can-do vibe but Pokémon Go has to understand that I will never ever complete this challenge.

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 23/03/2025

I finally spotted the iconic Australian wobbegong shark! Though if I'd RTFM beforehand I wouldn't have got quite so close. Turns out wobbegongs are a bit bitey. But it was all fine. (This is not my photo, it's from Wikipedia. But it did look a lot like that.)

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 22/03/2025

My daughter has started dabbling in chain-mail making. It's almost too on-brand ...

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 20/03/2025

I'll be on an incredible panel with V.E. Schwab and Veronica Roth at the LA Times Festival of Books in April! Come if you're in the area, I think it'll be pretty amazing.

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 19/02/2025

Very chuffed to find THE BRIGHT SWORD up for an LA Times Book Prize! I will be in LA for this ... events.latimes.com/festi…

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 04/02/2025

Last Stop Corbenic is up to 1000 subscribers! Probably mostly because it's free and I only post once every two weeks. I invite everybody to join who's interested in King Arthur and my writerly insecurities levgrossman.substack.com

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 25/01/2025

Thanks to @andrewliptak.com for pointing me to this supercool Grolier collection of imaginary magical books, including THE WORLD IN THE WALLS by Christopher Plover grolierclub.omeka.net/exhibits/sho... #themagicians

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