If you work in journalism in the year of our Lord 2024, you’ve likely fantasized about leaving this precarious industry behind and finally publishing that novel that vaunts you to the top of the best-seller list and gets adapted into a hit TV show. Lev Grossman is living that dream. For years, he toiled in relative obscurity as a journalist atTime, while writing little-read novels on the side. Everything changed in 2009 when he publishedThe Magicians, a sprawling fantasy epic about a group of adults who go to magic school. Today,New York’s Choire Sicha profiles Grossman, who is about to make his return to adult fiction withThe Bright Sword, an Arthurian-indebted book-stopper that’s already been in development as a TV series. “From the outside, it looked like I had a mid-career pivot to writing novels.” Grossman tells Choire. “I was always writing novels. It was just that people didn’t want to buy them.” Now that’s changed.\xa0