Our short and incomplete literary tour of the states ends in Massachusetts, the home state of Lev Grossman (and his twin brother and fellow novelist Austin). Grossman's novels, including the bestselling Codex and his upcoming book,The Magicians, which I guarantee you'll be hearing a lot about in the next couple of months, have often fantastic settings, sometimes not even restricted to the dimension we are accustomed to, but for a representative Massachusetts book (I'm not even sure it's a favorite, rather than an impish jab at his Commonwealth fellows) he went suburban realist, to the notorious stories of John Updike's 1963 collection, Couples:
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