We know Harry Potter comes out all right in the end, Grossman says, because we see him in an epilogue dropping his own kids off at Hogwarts. And it worked they were irritated by that." So in order to irritate them, I became a devotee of all things nerdy and unrespectable, like video games, science fiction, and fantasy. And they were great champions of the canon, and high works of Western civilization, also Eastern civilization. "My parents were both English professors. But despite Grossman's self-deprecating manner, he's really not lacking in cultural literacy.
"Like in the case of that, appears to be a radish, with blue tentacles and a stripey hat? I got nothing." "When you're walking around Comic-Con, you're constantly gauging your own cultural literacy, and I frequently come up short," he says, as we spot a particularly inscrutable costume. He has no problem taking unspoken insecurities and dragging them out into the light. Grossman was promoting the novel at this year's San Diego Comic-Con, and as I discovered, he's a fantastic - and slightly terrifying - person to see Comic-Con with. It's a literary fantasy, inspired by Narnia and Harry Potter, that tells the story of what happens to brilliant young wizards when they grow up and have to deal with the world.
The final book in Lev Grossman's Magicians trilogy comes out this week - The Magician's Land. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Magician's Land Author Lev Grossman
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