86: Like "Catcher in the Rye," Except Crappier

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2012

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Get out your magic wands, prepare your incantations, and prepare for a battle of wills involving ancient powers and callow youths. We discuss two recent novels with magic at the fore: Lev Grossman’s “The Magicians” and Erin Morgenstern’s “The Night Circus.” One of them we liked a lot… the other, not so much! Prepare yourself for a magical podcast.

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0:00.0	The Incomparable Podcast, number 86, April 2012.
0:14.9	We are back on The Incomparable Podcast.
0:17.3	I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:18.7	And it is time to open another edition of our incomparable
0:22.5	book club. Today's topic is magic and books about magical things. Specifically, we've got two
0:30.9	books that we're going to talk about that where magic and magicianship features heavily. And then
0:36.9	we will probably have a little bit of time
0:38.8	to branch out and talk about some other stuff too.
0:42.0	Joining me on the Incomparable Book Club tonight are Glenn Fleischman.
0:47.1	Hi, Glenn.
0:48.1	Hello there.
0:49.1	Good to have you.
0:50.0	Thank you for having me.
0:52.0	Dan Moran.
0:53.5	Jason, it's not magic.
0:54.8	It's an illusion.
0:56.6	Scott McNulty.
0:58.4	Hello.
0:59.2	Hello.
1:00.3	Good to have you here.
1:01.5	Always a pleasure.
1:02.7	Do you remember these books?
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