Lev Grossman

The Narnia trailer is extremely pretty. Love starry Aslan. I wouldn't have started with Magician's Nephew, but I can see the argument for it. My only question is, where's the Wood btw the Worlds? Did I miss it?! That's what the people are here for ...

I'll be briefly visible in Brisbane this weekend. Come by!

A few images from the gorgeous illustrated limited edition of THE BRIGHT SWORD just published by Grim Oak Press. You can't really make out David Palumbo's incredible brushwork but you'll get an idea. More details here: grimoakpress.com/products/the...

I suggested to my daughter that she read BRIDESHEAD REVISITED, and she said 'that sounds like old-person slop,' and now nothing is safe

More thoughts on accidentally translating Gawain and the Green Knight levgrossman.substack.com/p/brittened-...

Brisbanites -- my large face will be at the Writers Festival on October 11. Come by! bwf.org.au/2026/brisban...

Somehow I’ve ended up having to translate 120 or so lines of Gawain and the Green Knight from Middle English into modern, keeping the rhymes/rhythms/alliterations, and I definitely should not be doing it—because I'm totally unqualified—but it’s so much fun. Like D&D meets a crossword

NYT crossword puzzle today! I make a handy three-letter clue

The audiobook for @levgrossman.com ‘s “The Bright Sword” is so good that I’m not sure if I should alternate with the book. It *feels* like a novel so joyfully in conversation with the Matter of Britain *ought* to be an oral telling. But I’m an impatient & greedy reader. #booksky #specfic

It's a delight to see THE GOD OF SLEEP in the NY Times! www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/b...

This is the first and only chapter of The World in the Walls, Book One of the Fillory and Further series by Christopher Plover, which are the books-within-the-books of the Magicians trilogy. I wish I could write more, but I can’t open.substack.com/pub/levgross...

I got the Queen Bee badge in the New York Times Spelling Bee game and it only took me 466 tries

happy 34th birthday quentin coldwater who is totally alive for another year #themagicians @levgrossman.com

New Substack: The Plane Had No Markings levgrossman.substack.com/p/the-plane-...

I'm reasonably sure that I forgot to post about this incredible illustrated edition of THE MAGICIAN KING from @grimoakpress.bsky.social when the page for it went up at grimoakpress.com/products/the... (Incredible illustrations are by @christophershy.bsky.social)

Queer Arthurian recs: "The Bright Sword" Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com "Spear" Nicola Griffith @nicolaz.bsky.social "The Wolf and His King" Finn Longman @finnlongman.com "Perilous Times" Thomas D Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social "The Book of Gaheris" Kari Sperring @karisperring.bsky.social

My wife is doing a podcast episode on T.S. Eliot and I said I don’t know much about Eliot but Alfred J. Prufrock was the worst Flintstones character ever

Hooray!

As part of the Sydney Writers Festival I got to have this portrait taken by tintypecentral.com using a 19th-century "wet plate" photographic process. I love it -- I look like my own ancestor

Sacre bleu! Utterly gorgeous new covers from my French publisher Neptune for MAGICIAN KING and MAGICIAN'S LAND

Great panel yesterday talkin' fantasy literature at Sydney Writers' Festival with @levgrossman.com and @rfkuang.bsky.social, ably moderated by Carody Culver. Thanks everyone for coming along to the event, and the signing afterwards.

This is going to be a really remarkable conversation, not least because the legendary Garth Nix (not shown) is going to be in on it too. May 23rd at the Sydney Writers Festival. www.swf.org.au/program/fest...

I've got a story in this anthology that's getting Kickstarted! So do a lot of other amazing writers, including Brandon Sanderson, Seanan McGuire, Christopher Paolini, Matt Dinniman, Delilah Dawson, Jim Butcher etc. www.kickstarter.com/projects/unb...

“He looked up at the empty clouds, and as he died he wondered, not for the first time but for the very last, why it should be that we are made for a bright world, but live in a dark one.” -- @levgrossman.com, THE BRIGHT SWORD

The ending of The Bright Sword by @levgrossman.com brought me to actual tears, it was so beautiful and so perfect.

I'm giving a chat about writing fantasy. reedsy.com/learning/eve...

"I insisted that the god of sleep be shown on the toilet. So if anyone is offended by that, that is completely my fault." I talked to @publisherswkly.bsky.social about writing a picture book. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

There are days when you feel like a fraud and wonder what the point of it all is. And then there's a day when you get a shout-out from Lin-Manuel Miranda on The Hamilcast

The God of Sleep will be out in one week! In recognition of this, here is a detail from one of the pages. It is a cat riding on a graham cracker. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/lev-g...

The God of Sleep will be out in one week! In recognition of this, here is a detail from one of the pages. It is a cat riding on a graham cracker. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/lev-g...

For anybody local to Sydney, I'll be on a hell of a panel at the Writers Festival on May 23: myself, Garth Nix and R.F. Kuang. Should be an amazing conversation. www.swf.org.au/program/fest...

New Substack: levgrossman.substack.com/p/the-halfwa...

#DEAL ALERT! One clickers unite because THE BRIGHT SWORD @levgrossman.com is on #sale on #Kindle for today only! amzn.to/3MWNxyH #TheBrightSword #KingArthur #ad #amazoncom

I never realized till a kind soul pointed it out that my name is in the credits of KNIGHT OF THE 7 KINGDOMS. Bragging rights, how I love them