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September 29th, 2009

Hans Kulla-Mader: The Last Book I Loved, The Magicians

I love magic. Be it imagining myself wandering the hills of Narnia or riding a rickety boat on Earthsea’s fog ridden waters—I just want it so bad. I want to be in the club, know the secret, feel sorry for all the clueless muggles, but not really, because I’d be magical and therefore have magical business to attend to. There’s just something about having the power to transform a muffin into goldfish that I don’t think I’ll ever stop yearning for.

In The Magicians, Lev Grossman places magic in the real world—not Narnia or Hogwarts or Earthsea, but a world where fantasy books about magic exist and depression isn’t cured by an owl dropping a letter in your lap. …more

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Hans Kulla-Mader studied writing at Sarah Lawrence College and is currently living in San Francisco.

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