THE MAGICIANS: Fantasy Literature in the Post-Potter World

Theme:
Academic
When:
11:00 AM, Friday 22 May 2009 EDT (1 hour)
Breaks:
Lunch Break   12:00 PM to 02:00 PM (2 hours)
Where:
Boston Park Plaza - Whittier, 4th Floor
Try this thought-experiment: What would Harry Potter's life have been like if Hogwarts were less like an English boarding school and more like an American college, complete with drinking, drugs, and sex, and no Voldemort to fight? What if Harry had grown up reading fantasy novels? That's the idea (or part of it) behind a new book by Lev Grossman called The Magicians, which is coming out this August. The author will talk about the book, and do a short reading, and generally discuss the challenge of writing fantasy, and getting it published, in the post-Potter era.
Lev Grossman
Lev Grossman
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