Sharon Marcus (SM): I’m Sharon Marcus—I’m a Professor of English at Columbia University: I’m a Victorianist, and I work on nineteenth-century French literature, so I’m well-acquainted with the history of seriality. I’m also the Dean of Humanities and Editor of publicbooks.org. I would like to thank Lauren Goodlad and Sean O’Sullivan and Eileen Gillooly and everyone at the Heyman Center for putting this on today. I am going to introduce our panelists, although they don’t really need an introduction. They say of great actors that you would be happy to listen to them read the phone book. I think we can say of our panelists that we’d be happy to hear them write a review of the phone book, write a novel based on the phone book, or produce the phone book as a radio podcast. [laughter] But rituals are important, so here we go: Lev Grossman is the author of five novels, including the #1 New York Times-bestselling Magicians trilogy, which is now an

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Sharon Marcus (SM)：我是 Sharon Marcus——我是哥伦比亚大学的英语教授：我是维多利亚时代的人，我研究 19 世纪的法国文学，所以我很熟悉法国的历史连续性。我也是人文学院院长和 publicbooks.org 的编辑。我要感谢 Lauren Goodlad、Sean O'Sullivan 和 Eileen Gillooly 以及 Heyman 中心的每个人今天提出这个问题。我将介绍我们的小组成员，尽管他们并不真正需要介绍。他们说伟大的演员，你会很高兴听他们阅读电话簿。我想我们可以说我们的小组成员，我们很高兴听到他们对电话簿进行评论，根据电话簿写一部小说，或者将电话簿制作为广播播客。[笑声] 但仪式很重要，所以我们开始：