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THE BRIGHT SWORD IS OUT JULY 16, 2024

The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman: 9780735224049 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A Today.com & Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2024 “For anyone who’s ever craved a seat at the Round Table. Utterly enchanting.” —Rebecca Yarros, #1 New York...

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Lev Grossman

@leverus

6 years

Interviewer: Which would you rather have, a National Book Award or a Hugo? Le Guin: Oh, a Nobel, of course Interviewer: They don't give Nobel Prizes for fantasy. Le Guin: Maybe I can do something for peace.

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7 years

My kids' birthday card for their nanny. It's a girl smelling a flower. She is farting. A cat is also farting. Also, the flower is farting

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10 months

I took my new kitten Gandalf in for a checkup today and I just want to give total kudos to the vet who informed me that Gandalf was not as I thought a boy cat by saying 'looks like Gandalf's a Galadriel'

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5 years

HALLY (8): Daddy your magic land has two gods called Ember and Umber right? ME: Right. Ember and Umber. HALLY: My magic land is going to have two gods too. But they're going to be called Reality and Morality. ME: ME: ME: [is massively dunked on by his child]

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9 years

"Why is writing so much harder for me than it is for everybody else?" -- every novelist ever, secretly to themselves, all the time

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@leverus

5 years

there’s a lot of hurt in my @’s about the season finale. I don't feel like I can speak for the show--I consult on it but I don't write it--but I just want to say that I hear you. I don’t know if that’s worth anything but I feel you. I'm here. You’re not shouting into the void

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6 years

The new How to Train Your Dragon trailer just did not completely track for my 14 yr old daughter

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@leverus

6 years

Chucked dry ice in sink, inadvertently created portal to Fillory

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@leverus

6 years

I'm super-excited about this ...

The Hollywood Reporter

@THR

6 years

#TheMagicians coming to comics in 2019

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@leverus

4 years

My 9 year old daughter listened to Goblet of Fire, and now her bedtime ritual is that I'm Wormtail and she's a hideous disembodied Voldemort who has to be tucked into his cauldron with the dust of his dead father, Harry Potter's blood and my severed hand

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@leverus

6 years

And one more from the late unequalled Ursula Le Guin: “People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”

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@leverus

6 years

I love Sydney but it just doesn’t seem plausible that they have ibises instead of pigeons. Seems like sloppy worldbuilding

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@leverus

7 years

I am now functionally immortal. It's the tv show but still >FUNCTIONAL IMMORTALITY<

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@leverus

5 years

If you watch the show, you might want to catch this one in real time. It's a biggie.

The Magicians

@MagiciansSYFY

5 years

It's all come down to this. Don't miss the epic Season 4 finale of #TheMagicians , Wednesday at 9/8c on @SYFY .

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@leverus

5 years

Finished copies of the Magicians graphic novel have arrived. Note the two different covers!

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@leverus

5 years

Annie Leibovitz took some gorgeous behind-the-scenes photos of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker for this month's Vanity Fair, and I wrote a _really_long_ caption to go with them

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, The Ultimate Preview

After four decades, Star Wars is drawing to its epic conclusion. Lev Grossman goes behind the scenes with director J.J. Abrams and the cast for the inside scoop on The Rise of Skywalker. With...

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@leverus

4 years

All good things. Thank you everyone, we've had such a marvelous adventure together #TheMagicians

Damian Holbrook

@damianholbrook

4 years

Heartbreaking exclusive: @serathegamble and @johnthemcnamara discuss why @MagiciansSYFY is ending this season. #TheMagicians (Share your thoughts in the comments on @tvinsider )

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@leverus

3 months

New covers for the Magicians trilogy. I will always love the old ones — I have v fond memories of arguing over the cover of The Magicians, (which in my mind evokes the Wood Between the Worlds in autumn). But it was time to update them.

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@leverus

3 years

It was pricy up front but the Complete Calvin and Hobbes is still the most efficient child-entertainment-purchase I ever made

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@leverus

11 months

Much as I love them I've always felt that the UK covers for the Magicians didn't look much like a trilogy. They were all done in very different styles. Someone at Del Rey must have thought so too b/c they're reissuing all three books with these beautiful new covers in August:

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@leverus

5 years

Or as the official episode summary puts it: "Quentin yells at a plant. Margo stares at a fish." (If you've read the books, you'll recognize the plant.)

The Magicians

@MagiciansSYFY

5 years

It's time to meet The Monster's sister 👀 Prepare yourselves for an all-new #TheMagicians , Wednesday at 9/8c on @SYFY .

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@leverus

4 years

This is the finale of the whole show. I've seen it and it's pretty amazing. If the show has meant something to you over the years I would try to watch this one when it airs.

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@serathegamble

4 years

#TheMagicians series finale airs Wednesday. I got to cowrite this episode with fellow showrunner @alonsomyers . (Finally! We'd never officially written a script together.) It's got, well, a bit everything. We're proud of it and very excited to share.

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@leverus

5 years

This is something I've been pouring a lot of work/energy/emotion into for the past year or so -- it's a big project for me

AGBO Sets Author Lev Grossman’s Original Sci-Fi Series Idea ‘The Heavens’ At Amazon

AGBO Sets Author Lev Grossman Original Sci-Fi Series Idea 'The Heavens' at Amazon

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@leverus

5 years

OK I have just acquired a cat for the first time since I was a little kid, and seriously why do they sit on your actual hands while you are trying to type?

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@leverus

3 years

I wrote a movie called The Map of Tiny Perfect Things and they just released a teaser for it! It's out Feb. 12 on Amazon.

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@leverus

5 years

Critics often complain that the Magicians novels don't have enough Whitesnake in them. This will be corrected tonight at 9

THE MAGICIANS | Musical Episode Sneak Peek | SYFY

Watch The Magicians Season 5 on SYFY.Subscribe To SYFY ►► https://syfy.tv/SubscribeWatch More of The Magicians ►► http://po.st/WatchMoreTheMagiciansWatch ful...

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@leverus

6 years

Just hit send on 2nd draft of The Bright Sword. Standard combo of pride, relief, regret, terror, exhaustion, what-have-I-done etc.

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@leverus

4 years

Surprise book announcement! For the past couple of years I’ve been working on a novel for kids called THE SILVER ARROW. It’s coming out September 1. Here’s the cover.

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@leverus

4 years

You would think that hardened and jaded authors do not cry at these moments but that is so so far from the truth 😭📚 #thesilverarrow

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@leverus

7 years

Magicians renewed for season 3

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@leverus

5 years

Back on the Magicians set

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@leverus

5 years

This is a beautiful thread

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@leverus

5 years

I'll be at Comic-Con in San Diego this year. I won't technically be cosplaying but will still strongly resemble Nardole from Doctor Who.

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@leverus

4 years

This isn't really relevant to anything but: through means best left undiscussed I've gotten access to Susanna Clarke's new novel PIRANESI and I'm losing it because it's so fantastic. It's nothing like JONATHAN STRANGE but it's every bit as good.

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@leverus

5 years

Check this out! I am super excited

The Hollywood Reporter

@THR

5 years

Lev Grossman's 'The Magicians' starts over as new comic book series

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@leverus

4 years

I did this whole week cold sober for some reason. This ends now.

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@leverus

6 years

I can't believe I'm just finding out about Simon Stålenhag's paintings now. I have so much to catch up on

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@leverus

6 years

I'm sorry I keep tweeting about the fact that Felicia Day is on The Magicians tonight. It's just one of my favorite facts about my life.

The Magicians

@MagiciansSYFY

6 years

Here’s what @FeliciaDay wants you to know about her character Poppy before tonight at 9/8c. Don’t say she didn’t warn you 😏 #TheMagicians

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@leverus

6 years

I don't tweet about politics but just to tweet for a second about being a human being in the world: if you're in the U.S. please please vote today. I've never seen my my local polling place so crowded, and I have never been so happy to wait in an interminable line as I was today.

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@leverus

7 years

people in my writing shrug too much. they're always shrugging. shrugging and sighing.

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@leverus

8 years

What a disaster for America. We're going to have to work harder and be braver and wait longer than we thought. But we can't give up.

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@leverus

9 years

We made it! The Magicians is a show http://t.co/5fJmAH55x8

‘The Magicians’ Picked Up To Series By Syfy

Lev Grossman’s best-selling fantasy book trilogy The Magicians is headed to Syfy‘s primetime as the network has given a 12-episode series order to its pilot. The project hails from Michael London’s...

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@leverus

4 years

Having new author photo taken this morning, can't remember how to make human face

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@leverus

3 months

My publisher sent me 8000 pages to sign, a number that includes an extra 500 pages in case some of the other pages are 'unusable.' Which is hilarious because how could anybody mess up signing their own n—well, OK, actually you know what never mind

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@leverus

5 years

Season four of The Magicians starts tomorrow night ...

The Magicians

@MagiciansSYFY

5 years

A complete stranger picking you up IS very alarming... Dean Fogg is back with #TheMagicians , Wednesday at 9/8c on @SYFY .

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@leverus

5 years

The brand new MAGICIANS graphic novel ALICE'S STORY is on sale next week in bookstores ... but it's out TODAY TODAY TODAY in comic book shops everywhere!!!

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@leverus

8 months

The gorgeous new UK edition of The Magicians is out now!

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@leverus

7 years

Tonight on The Magicians! Golems, necromancy, the White Lady, more sloth, and centaurs. And a phrase I'm proud of: "feral sex-herd"

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@leverus

2 years

Weirdly satisfying being the first person to take out a book in 30 years

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@leverus

10 years

The Magician King is $2.99, today only: http://t.co/9ntpWVRdOO

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@leverus

4 years

I spent 2016 through 2019 writing (among other things) a screenplay called THE MAP OF TINY PERFECT THINGS. We shot it in Fairhope, AL right before the pandemic hit. I'm now watching an early cut of the movie for the first time and having a LOT of feelings.

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@leverus

6 years

Here's a version of the cover art with words on it. I love the cover (though my name is too big) -- it's by Steve Morris and looks like exploding goth Nancy Drew

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Lev Grossman

@leverus

10 months

Be still my beating heart

Garth Nix

@garthnix

10 months

Margot Robbie reveals her excellent taste in books in this @nerdist interview, see around 2:11

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@leverus

7 years

Morning run along misty Fillorian coast

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Lev Grossman

@leverus

8 years

And just generally bravo everybody who worked on #TheMagicians . It means so much to me watch you tell this story. Onwards and upwards.

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@leverus

8 years

My new book! THE BRIGHT SWORD, a novel of King Arthur

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@leverus

4 years

Today is (approximately) eleven years since The Magicians was published, which seems like a good time to remind everybody that the amazing @parrygripp once wrote a really great song about it

I Wanna Be A Magician - Fan song by Parry Gripp

Cool! You can send the above postcards from here: http://themagiciansbook.com/postcard.phpI'm a huge fan of "The Magicians" by Lev Grossman, so I wrote and r...

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@leverus

4 years

But it's not over yet. New Magicians episode tonight -- plus issue #5 of the Magicians comic hits stores today.

The Magicians

@MagiciansSYFY

4 years

The question of the century 😂 An all-new episode of #TheMagicians hits @SYFY TONIGHT at 10/9c.

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@leverus

4 years

so beautiful

Evelyn Rogers 🐟 they/them 🐟

@wow__then

4 years

painted some scenes from #TheMagicians ✨ in the style of my favorite Narnia illustrations @leverus 🥰🥰🥰

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@leverus

8 months

One of the million brilliant things about my wife is that she keeps a jar of frozen martinis in the freezer

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@leverus

6 years

In LA for secret project ... oh man I really want this to work out. Praying to the cruel god of secret projects.

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@leverus

4 years

#PublishingPaidMe My advances: 1998: $5K for Warp, a literary novel (spoiler alert: they overpaid) 2004: $25K for Codex, literary novel with thrillery bits 2009: $300K for The Magicians, literary fantasy 2011: $600K for The Magician King 2014: $650K for The Magician’s Land

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@leverus

11 years

Great piece on storytelling in NYT mag. Feels like the missing 1/2 of an argument I've been trying to make for years http://t.co/P6Fnn2K8

Once Upon a Time, There Was a Person Who Said, ‘Once Upon a Time’ (Published 2013)

A good narrator, in books and in life, is the guide who makes sense of the story. So why have so many storytellers given up on narration?

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@leverus

3 years

Later today my family and I will get on a 24-hour flight to Australia where on arrival we will be confined to a quarantine apartment for two actual weeks. The one of us who comes out at the end is the strongest

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@leverus

4 months

#themagicians !

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7 years

Took daughter to first Comic-Con Saturday morning. She stayed all day, went back Sunday, came home wearing steampunk monocle.

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4 months

In high school my son was obsessed with Adrian Tchaikovsky's CHILDREN OF TIME. I deliberately did NOT read it then b/c it was his thing and I didn't want to get my gross parent-germs on it. But now I'm reading it and I see what all the fuss was about

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7 years

Wandered around NYC today, spotted these. The fact that there is a tv show based on #TheMagicians never stops being wonderfully weird

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@leverus

4 years

@paulandstorm @neilhimself Can I borrow your coat

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@leverus

6 years

Turned in first 1/4 of The Bright Sword last night. It's been so long since I finished a piece of writing, I no longer remember what it feels like

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@leverus

6 years

Season three of The Magicians starts tonight at 9 on Syfy. Penny wears a suit, Margo name-checks Fairuza Balk, & Josh is unexpectedly poignant. Seriously it's all happening

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@leverus

8 years

There will be an early UNANNOUNCED showing of ep. 1 of The Magicians on Dec 16 on Syfy, at 10pm, commercial-free, after Childhood’s End

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@leverus

5 years

This beautiful book has my sister’s mathematical sculpture on the cover and a chapter on her work. I’ve highlighted a characteristic quote @bathshebasculpt

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@leverus

7 years

WORK-IN-PROGRESS: How can you have spent so long on me, and I'm still so bad? ME: I don't know. WORK-IN-PROGRESS: No but seriously how

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@leverus

2 years

One of my most-looked-forward-to books of the year if not the decade. Thank you @DandQ and @beatonna !!!

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@leverus

8 years

The Magicians premieres tonight at 9. Those are words I never thought I'd type. Or at least not in that combination.

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@leverus

10 years

And here's what it is. A tweet five years in the making: Magicians pilot is greenlit http://t.co/mzw0bUHyyq

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3 months

“What’s in the box?” “Pain.” These are the 8,100 pages I’m going to sign so they can be bound into copies of The Bright Sword

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5 months

First galley of The Bright Sword!

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@leverus

3 years

I wrote this!

The Map of Tiny Perfect Things

@tinyperfmovie

3 years

a 24 hour love story… sort of.

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@leverus

3 years

The Map of Tiny Perfect Things is out today!

The Map of Tiny Perfect Things

Quick-witted teen Mark (Kyle Allen) is contentedly living the same day in an endless loop when his world is turned upside-down by the mysterious Margaret (Kathryn Newton), also stuck in the same...

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@leverus

8 years

Obviously the real money in this business is in residuals from cameos in your TV shows

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@leverus

5 years

Ooh -- there's a promo

The Magicians

@MagiciansSYFY

5 years

Eliot's ready to fight for his life 🙌 Don't miss #TheMagicians , Wednesday at 9/8c on @SYFY .

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6 years

THE WRITER'S MAP: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands, ed. by @polarworld . I would plug this book anyway b/c I'm in it but more to the point it's also got @PhilipPullman , @CressidaCowell , @david_mitchell , @RobGMacfarlane and @RolyChambers in it. Also it's incredibly beautiful ...

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@leverus

5 months

Rereading Watership down for the first time in about 30 years. The rabbit-ese is a bit silly, and Richard Adams can't seem to pass a hedgerow without describing it in 10,00+ words, but it's still absolutely a masterpiece and an emotional freight train

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@leverus

4 years

I don't even know how to talk about how much I love this

Evelyn Rogers 🐟 they/them 🐟

@wow__then

4 years

“Once I let myself go all the way back, all the way to the beginning of Fillory. The beginning of everything, or this everything anyway. It was as far as you could go. You bumped against it, like you’d reached the end of your string.” #TheMagicians ✨

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10 years

The Iron Trial by @hollyblack and @cassieclare passes the acid test: Lily is obsessed with it http://t.co/QZTDiYgpzG

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9 years

Photos from the set, posted without comment. http://t.co/0RfS1IYQLy

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4 years

My kids tried to do rock-paper-scissors while wearing mittens. They realized their mistake too late and were left staring at their blank mittened hands. Felt like an early-period Peanuts strip.

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4 years

Also I should probably mention that the literal actual premiere of Season 5 of The Magicians is tonight!!!

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8 years

I got my own chair! #bucketlist #nowImdone

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8 years

Scenes from the Magicians Comic-con party. We are through the looking glass...

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9 years

A little light reading http://t.co/nBNjvyNqcp

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7 years

Minding the kids so my wife can march

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8 years

More from the Brakebills library: the most magic book you'll see today

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2 years

It’s my birthday today, and my son was practicing his cello and snapped his A string, so I went rummaging in my cello case for a spare string and out fell this ancient snapshot from my senior-year high school youth orchestra tour

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6 years

I can't believe I just got a full night's sleep and then did a full day's work. For a writer with kids that's like the super blue blood moon of productivity

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5 years

New Magicians tonight at 9. Certified 100% fresh ...

The Magicians: Season 4 | Rotten Tomatoes

Quentin Coldwater, a grad student at Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy, has been fascinated by the magical fantasy world since he was young. But as he has gotten older, Quentin and his 20-som...

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@MagiciansSYFY

5 years

Kady 👊 Fen 🔪 Zelda 📚 Penny 🕴 We're catching up with some of your faves on an all-new #TheMagicians , Wednesday at 9/8c on @SYFY .

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7 years

WattPad is running a Magicians fan fiction contest, judged by me, @serathegamble and @johnthemcnamara . Prize is $10K

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