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Bye, baby Bunting

A mysterious man summoned during an incantation gone awry in the urban fantasy novel The Magicians (2009) by Lev Grossman recites the rhyme shortly before vanishing again.

Juliet, Naked

Lev Grossman compared it with another 2009 novel – The Song Is You by Arthur Phillips – and called it "an example of what you might call iPod lit,...novels that meditate on the paradoxical mixture of intimacy and estrangement that arises from listening to digitally recorded music, or really from any human interaction mediated by the Internet."

Literary fiction

In an interview by Lev Grossman for Time magazine, John Updike lamented that "the category of 'literary fiction' has sprung up recently to torment people like me who just set out to write books, and if anybody wanted to read them, terrific, the more the merrier. But now, no, I'm a genre writer of a sort. I write literary fiction, which is like spy fiction or chick lit".

Wood between the Worlds

Lev Grossman's novels The Magicians and The Magician King feature a place called the Neitherlands, which similarly links various worlds through pools of water.

Allen Grossman

His children are Jonathan Grossman and Adam Grossman from the first marriage, and Bathsheba Grossman, Austin Grossman, and Lev Grossman from the second.

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