Today, we're talking magic. Lev Grossman is the author of - among other things - The Magicians trilogy, which recently made the jump to the small screen with The Magicians on Syfy (Seasons 1-2 on Netflix and Season 3 on the air now)! In a nutshell, The Magicians imagines what someplace like Hogwarts might be like if it were a real place in the real world and filled with hormonal teens. Intrigued? You know you are. On this episode, we talk to Lev about his struggle to find his voice as a writer, the laborious process he had to go through to turn out his first couple books (which took a combined 11 years to write), the commercial and critical success he's found with The Magicians, and the pressure to move forward and produce something new and different. We also hear what kind of candy he'd be, which is a good answer even though he trashes one of my favorite candy bars in the process. (Sorry Mounds, you'll always be #1 to me.)