and we explore the life and legacy of ray bradbury with lev grossman, book critic for "time" magazine and himself a best-selling writer. his novels include "the magicians" and "the magician king." lev, perhaps first for those who haven't read ray bradbury, what do you think make him such an important writer in american literary life? >> well, you know, you come to him as a science fiction writer, but as soon as you start reading him you start to realize that he's doing things that you didn't realize that science fiction could do. i mean, with bradbury you start weeping, you're terrified, you're happy, you're laughing. he took you places psychologically that science fiction writers didn't usually go or didn't go before then. he was exploring outer space but in essence he was really exploring inner space. he was sort of taking you on a journey, the inner space in your unconscious. >> brown: there's a wonderful interview in print he did with the paris "review" that i was reading and he said "when i was a young writer if you went to a party and told someone you were a science fiction writ