The first time I interviewed writer Lev Grossman I had just finished reading his excellent fantasy novel, The Magicians, the story of a group of teenage students at Brakebills, an elite private school for magicians.

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He said that he had just finished reading my piece on the cycles and was really asking if I thought this cycle was ending.

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