Buried deep in Lev Grossman’s end-of-the-year holiday newsletter is an interesting little gem for fans of The Magicians. Grossman has begun writing a third installment dealing with the magical universe of Fillory, which he has tentatively titled The Magician’s Land. He’s claiming it’s “unlike anything else” he’s written before, but at the same time “not completely new either.”
Interestingly, Grossman lists various books he’s in the middle of re-reading which seem to be influencing his outline for the next book; The Tempest, The Phantom Tollbooth, Casino Royale, and some P.G. Wodhouse. He also mentions Lord of the Rings, a series which “oddly enough I’ve never really thought of as an influence before.”
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