About the book:
"The Last Unicorn" (1968), by Peter S. Beagle
“The Last Unicorn is the best book I have ever read. You need to read it. If you’ve already read it, you need to read it again.”
- Patrick Rothfuss, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author
"The Last Unicorn is a fantasy for these times. The novel doesn’t take place in a believable alternate world with clear rules and boundaries, but in a messy one more akin to ours. It’s not epic fantasy, but applied fantasy—which is to say, readers aren’t supposed to get lost in its invented world. We are supposed to import its lessons to our own world. In this uncertain age, when truth and falsehood are just rapidly converging talking points on the same blurry continuum, and wishful thinking is hopelessly mixed up with reality, The Last Unicorn urges audiences to do the things that need doing anyway, muddling through as best we can."
- YOSEF LINDELL is a writer living in the Washington, D.C., area. His site is yoseflindell.wordpress.com.
"Peter S. Beagle has been writing for 60 years but he will always be known above all, as the author of The Last Unicorn, the 1968 fantasy classic. With its idiosyncratic yet archetypal characters such as the hapless magician Schmendrick, the compassionate Molly Grue, and the unicorn herself, The Last Unicorn is the most beloved book on many a reader’s shelf."
- Michael Weingrad
Learn more about Peter S. Beagle at his site: https://www.beagleverse.com/
Hosted by Professor Michael Weingrad
Professor of Judaic Studies, Portland State University, Michael Weingrad is the author of American Hebrew Literature: Writing Jewish National Identity in the United States and the editor and translator of Letters to America: Selected Poems of Reuven Ben-Yosef. He is a regular contributor to the Jewish Review of Books and Mosaic magazine. He is currently working on a book about Jews and fantasy literature. A selection of his recent writing can be found at www.investigationsandfantasies.com.