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Lev Grossman Takes His Time
The author of The Magicians returns to adult fiction with The Bright Sword. It only took ten years and a transpacific move.
We had begun our Brooklyn tour at Greenlight, but now Grossman has successfully navigated us to the hole-in-the-wall Kitten Café in Bed-Stuy, only second-guessing himself once to check his phone, a little sad that he’d lost the courage of his convictions. I had to look at the message boards and delete obscenity, libel, hate speech, and copyright violations.” This was how he started at Time; he also managed coders in the web division for four years before eventually becoming a book critic for the magazine. Because that world feels a lot like our world.” On the surface, The Bright Sword is a straightforward Arthurian tale — a boy named Collum comes to Camelot and wants to be a knight.
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