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I suggested to my daughter that she read BRIDESHEAD REVISITED, and she said 'that sounds like old-person slop,' and now nothing is safe

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 08/09/2026

Somehow I’ve ended up having to translate 120 or so lines of Gawain and the Green Knight from Middle English into modern, keeping the rhymes/rhythms/alliterations, and I definitely should not be doing it—because I'm totally unqualified—but it’s so much fun. Like D&D meets a crossword

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 03/09/2026

as far as I can tell shift-command-V isn't even an existing shortcut for anything -- it was right there ...

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 03/09/2026

Every day, like many times a day, I mentally complain to the person who made the PASTE AND MATCH STYLE combo (shift/option/command/V) in Pages so difficult. WHY MAKE SOMETHING SO USEFUL SO HARD

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 31/08/2026

... such a show up of my own decrepitude, & at such huge length. I could only plump it down on the table & rush up stairs with burning cheeks to L. He said This always happens. But I felt, no it has never been so bad as this …

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 31/08/2026

Virginia Woolf a front-runner for 20th century’s most relatable genius. From her diary: Thursday 16 January (1936) Seldom have I been more completely miserable than I was about 6.30 last night, reading over the last part of The Years. Such feeble twaddle—such twilight gossip it seemed ...

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

Skimbleshanks didn't mention any of this! I'm glad it didn't end any worse. I took the Caledonian Sleeper from Glasgow to London too with similar results. But that CNN piece gives me hope. (I have friends who've taken the Ghan and said it was amazing but they were the only people under 70.)

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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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Jane Alyson Clarke @janeeyrie.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The audiobook for @levgrossman.com ‘s “The Bright Sword” is so good that I’m not sure if I should alternate with the book. It *feels* like a novel so joyfully in conversation with the Matter of Britain *ought* to be an oral telling. But I’m an impatient & greedy reader. #booksky #specfic

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 02/08/2026

This is the first and only chapter of The World in the Walls, Book One of the Fillory and Further series by Christopher Plover, which are the books-within-the-books of the Magicians trilogy. I wish I could write more, but I can’t open.substack.com/pub/levgross...

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The Wonderful Clock

This is the first and only chapter of The World in the Walls, Book One of the Fillory and Further series by Christopher Plover. I wish I could write more, but I can't

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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 · 27/07/2026

he polls well ahead of the Mongoose King

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 27/07/2026

Despite our having no real context for this, Vader Johan has developed a zealous following in our household youtu.be/Wf76y8gORKE?...

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Big Mouth - Vader Johan Christmas Tale (the Janssen twins)

YouTube video by DrHypoxia

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evelyn rogers 🐟 COMMISSIONS OPEN 🐟 (they/them) 🐟 @fishydwarrows.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

happy 34th birthday quentin coldwater who is totally alive for another year #themagicians @levgrossman.com

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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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Julie Bozza @juliebozza.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Queer Arthurian recs: "The Bright Sword" Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com "Spear" Nicola Griffith @nicolaz.bsky.social "The Wolf and His King" Finn Longman @finnlongman.com "Perilous Times" Thomas D Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social "The Book of Gaheris" Kari Sperring @karisperring.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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Garth Nix @garthnix.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Great panel yesterday talkin' fantasy literature at Sydney Writers' Festival with @levgrossman.com and @rfkuang.bsky.social, ably moderated by Carody Culver. Thanks everyone for coming along to the event, and the signing afterwards.

Four people in big red armchairs on stage, with a large projected banner behind that reads "Sydney Writers' Festival May 2026 Fantastical Worlds R.F. Kuang, Lev Grossman, Garth Nix and Carody Culver."

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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 · 16/04/2026

oh I'm so glad! fingers crossed

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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

“He looked up at the empty clouds, and as he died he wondered, not for the first time but for the very last, why it should be that we are made for a bright world, but live in a dark one.” -- @levgrossman.com, THE BRIGHT SWORD

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Radio Saturday @radiosaturday.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

The ending of The Bright Sword by @levgrossman.com brought me to actual tears, it was so beautiful and so perfect.

A white hand holds a copy of Lev Grossman's The Bright Sword in somewhat battered paperback above a dark faux-wood floor.

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

THE GOD OF SLEEP was inspired by my love of mythology and the nonsense poems of Edward Lear. Picture books are very much a word-of-mouth business, so if you have or know a child who likes rhymes or beautiful drawings or polytheism, consider mentioning THE GOD OF SLEEP to them and/or their parents!

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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

(BTW this is typical of the Gump-like existence I led during my tenure at Time -- I was always turning up looking confused in the background of scenes involving famous people)

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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 · 23/03/2026

… and in walked a tall guy with grey hair and a military bearing and gave Zuckerberg a hearty handshake. It was Robert Mueller. There was something weirdly historic and fated about that moment. Good enough for a lede anyway. Feels even moreso now.

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

In 2010 I was at Facebook headquarters to write a Person of the Year profile of Mark Zuckerberg for Time. Halfway through my reporting I was badly stuck for a lede, until I was sitting in a staff meeting that Zuckerberg was running ...

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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

I didn't even realize this was up!

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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

For anybody local to Sydney, I'll be on a hell of a panel at the Writers Festival on May 23: myself, Garth Nix and R.F. Kuang. Should be an amazing conversation. www.swf.org.au/program/fest...

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Fantastical Worlds

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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 · 11/03/2026

Semi-regular reminder that THE GOD OF SLEEP is coming out March 24! Booklist just reviewed it: "Grossman’s first foray into picture books is a beauty. The lovely lilting text features clever rhymes and gentle humor, and the inventive illustrations burst with vibrant hues and darling detail."

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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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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 07/03/2026

It's a small thing but wow, getting a new podcast off the ground -- with no corporate or institutional support -- is a heavy lift. Even tiny things count!

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 07/03/2026

The Secret Life of Books is up for an NYC podcast award! If you like it please vote! Early and often! @slobpodcast.bsky.social www.silver-nyc.com/nycpodcastaw...

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Vote — SILVER - Podcast & Video Production

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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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