The Magicians Trilogy Boxed Set: The Magicians; The Magician King; The Magician's Land

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Grossman, Lev (August 11, 2011). "A Brief Guide to the Allusions in The Magicians". Tor.com. Macmillan . Retrieved May 19, 2017. Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. A senior in high school, he’s still secretly preoccupied with a series of fantasy novels he read as a child, set in a magical land called Fillory. Imagine his surprise when he finds himself unexpectedly admitted to a very secret, very exclusive college of magic in upstate New York, where he receives a thorough and rigorous education in the craft of modern sorcery.

Grossman, Lev (August 16, 2014). "Finding My Voice in Fantasy". The New York Times. Archived from the original on July 9, 2022 . Retrieved July 9, 2022.Keegan Connor Tracy as Professor Eleanor Lipson, a teacher at Brakebills specializing in magical healing. She works in the school's infirmary. Heller, Jason (August 4, 2014). "Lev Grossman lists his 5 favorite portals in fantasy fiction". The A.V. Club. Univision Communications . Retrieved May 19, 2017. Grossman is also a journalist: from 2002 to 2016 Grossman worked as a staff writer at Time magazine, where he wrote 20-or-so cover stories, and he’s written essays and articles for Vanity Fair, the Believer, the Village Voice, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Salon, Slate, Wired, Entertainment Weekly, the Week, Buzzfeed, NPR, Lingua Franca, and many other places. He regularly gives talks and workshops at festivals and colleges and has served on the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle, Electric Literature, and the Harvard Advocate. In 2018 he was the Mary Higgins Clark Chair in Creative Writing at Fordham College.

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The first half of this book is amazing. Even though you know there will be revelations they are still surprising and they just keep coming. Metcalf, Mitch (March 26, 2020). "Updated: ShowBuzzDaily's Top 150 Wednesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 4.1.2020". Showbuzz Daily. Archived from the original on April 2, 2020 . Retrieved April 2, 2020.

Grossman explores the boundaries between fiction and reality with great imagination … This is a dark, well-written book that takes the wizard genre into thoughtful places.” The main character in this book is a brilliant kid who stumbles (literally) into the Magical school of Brakebills. There is no magical legacy here. There are no magical families. Brakebills is effort only, talent only. Either you got magical powers or you're just a Muggle. Quentin passes the magical test (not ever having known that such a magical world existed), and is admitted into the school. Harry Potter jumped at the thought of entry into Hogwarts. Quentin: not so much. Suppose it really was a school for magic. Was it any good? What if he’d stumbled into some third-tier magic college by accident? He had to think practically. He didn’t want to be committing himself to some community college of sorcery when he could have Magic Harvard or whatever. Skepticism! Yeah! When I discovered that Lev Grossman is the brother of Austin Grossman (Soon I Will Be Invincible) I was immediately curious to see how their prose compared. It turns out Lev's writing is COMPLETELY different but no less brilliant. I have seen some reviewers make a big deal of the point of view character, Quentin Coldwater, being an unsympathetic protagonist. I really didn’t get that. The book has been called Harry Potter for grownups (it contains a magic school, what else will people call it?) and certainly Quentin is no brave-hearted, resilient hero-in-the-making in the model of young Mr Potter. He’s flawed, human, he variously feels sorry for himself, or thinks too much of himself… What part of this is not c

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Lev Grossman was a journalist before he began writing fiction. Allen Grossman, his father, was a poet, while Judith Grossman (Mother) carved out a career as a novelist. The Magicians is a new adult fantasy novel by the American author Lev Grossman, published in 2009 by Viking Press. It tells the story of Quentin Coldwater, a young man who discovers and attends a secret college of magic in New York. The novel received critical acclaim and was followed by a sequel, The Magician King, in 2011 [1] [2] and a third novel, The Magician's Land, in 2014. The Magicians: Alice's Story (graphic novel) (with Lilah Sturges), Archala, 2019. ISBN 978-1-684-15021-2 a b "Lev Grossman's The Magicians Starts Over as Comic Book Series". The Hollywood Reporter. August 15, 2019.