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Episode Seventeen: Lev Grossman

In This Episode:

Lev Grossman, literary critic for Time Magazine and author of The Magicians Trilogy, stops by the Damn Library to talk about Rowling, Lewis, and (one of) his favorite book(s) of all time: Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway.


The Ep. 17 Bookshelf

THIS EPISODE’S BOOKS: THE MAGICIANS TRILOGY BY LEV GROSSMAN & MRS. DALLOWAY BY VIRGINIA WOOLF

WHAT’D YOU BUY?

Drew: The Familiar, Vol. 1 by Mark Z. Danielewski
Lev: An Encyclopedia of Arthuriana
Christopher: The Ghost Network by Catie Disabato & My Struggle, Book Four by Karl Ove Knåusgard

ALSO MENTIONED:

Codex by Lev Grossman
Warp by Lev Grossman
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer
The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
The Once & Future King by T.H. White
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
The Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St. Aubyn
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Drew: Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
Lev: A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
Christopher: A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara