Given her practical nature, it seems ironic that novelist Alice Hoffman sprinkles magical realism through most of her novels. There’s an abundance of it in her new “Magic Lessons,” the prequel to 1995 ...

Elizabeth Gilbert is an exceptionally gifted author whose work I’ve overlooked for years, based solely on the fact that her most notable work became a Julia Roberts vehicle. (I acknowledge that I am a ...

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In "Magic Lessons" (Simon & Schuster, a division of ViacomCBS), a prequel to "Practical Magic" and "The Rules of Magic," author Alice Hoffman tells the story of the origins of the Owens family's ...

Alice Hoffman has written more than two dozen books, but her tales about the sorcery of the Owens sisters and their ilk (1995’s Practical Magic and 2017’s The Rules of Magic) remain her most enduring.

In anticipation of her new book, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, Elizabeth Gilbert has launched a new podcast called "Magic Lessons." Guests include creatives and experts, and Gilbert's ...

"Some stories begin at the beginning and others begin at the end, but all the best stories begin in a library." And so begins the fourth and final novel in "The Practical Magic Series." In "The Book ...

For the sequel, Goldsman will pick up the story of the Owens sisters with producer Denise Di Novi previously revealing that the film will take its inspiration from author Alice Hoffman’s The Book of ...

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