228: Lev Grossman (THE BRIGHT SWORD) & Philip K Dick's UBIK
In This Episode:
Lev Grossman returns to the podcast after a nine year break. That’s a long time! Since he was here last, he wrote his Arthurian magnum opus, The Bright Sword, and he chats about it, along with a good name for a cocktail sword, God, Merlin, and how he likes to be in conversation with someone else’s work. Plus, he brings along Philip K. Dick’s UBIK, a bizarre sci-fi classic that’s on the verge of fantasy itself.
THE EP. 228 BOOKSHELF
WHAT'D YOU BUY?:
Lev: Same Bed, Different Dreams by Ed Park
Christopher: The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
ALSO MENTIONED:
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
James by Percival Everett
The Magicians Trilogy by Lev Grossman
Idylls of the King by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory
That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis
The Fall of Arthur by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Mabinogion (Earliest Welsh Prose Stories)
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The First Law Trilogy Joe Abercrombie
The Alliterative Morte Arthure (15th Century)
Camelot 3000 by Mike W. Barr
Lev Grossman’s Substack
Moonbound by Robin Sloan
Sourdough by Robin Sloan
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Minority Report (dir. Stephen Spielberg)
Inception (dir. Christopher Nolan)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (dir. Michel Gondry)
Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
Brazil (dir. Terry Gilliam)
Feed by M.T. Anderson
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Lev: Spear by Nicola Griffith, Nicked by M.T. Anderson
Christopher: DC Meets Looney Tunes by Tom King
