![]() ![]() I spoke with Grossman over the telephone to discuss what it’s like to be both the remixer and the remixed, whether there’s such a thing as a totally original story, and Western literature’s long history of reimagining and retelling. ![]() Grossman’s books are the source materials for SyFy’s series The Magicians, highly acclaimed by none other than Vox’s Todd VanDerWerff and now beginning its third season - which means that Grossman is in the unusual position of being someone who both reimagines a source material and then sees his his own source material reimagined by someone else. They’re books that shamelessly revel in the pleasure of classic fantasy worlds, and that are also committed to examining the philosophical underpinnings that invisibly hold up those worlds. They’re the kind of books you love if you’re still waiting for your Hogwarts owl but also would really enjoy a good conversation over whether Snape can strictly be said to be redeemed at the end of the Harry Potter, given his years of bullying blameless children under his care. ![]() Lev Grossman’s Magicians books are the kind of books you obsess over if you are also prone to obsessing over how unfair it is that Susan gets kicked out of Narnia because she likes lipstick, while simultaneously fantasizing about meeting a faun under a lamppost. ![]()
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