Forget why fantasy matters. Why does realism matter?
Last week, as part of their month-long celebration of Ursula K. LeGuin’s Wizard of Earthsea, Manhattan’s Center for Fiction gathered four fantasists, including Naomi Novik and Lev Grossman, to explain why fantasy matters. Despite the panel’s name, none of the speakers Lev Grossman (The Magician King), Naomi Novik (the Temeraire series), Kelly Link (Pretty Monsters),…
