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 ...

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 ...

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.

It was a time of epidemics, magical thinking, fearmongering, violence, vengeance, and the demonization of women who dare to speak out. In a novel with eerie parallels to the present day, Alice Hoffman ...

Hoffman’s striking latest entry in her Practical Magic series (after The Rules of Magic) turns to 1664 rural England for the origin story of Maria Owens, matriarch of the series’ clan of witches.

EXCLUSIVE: A stage musical adaptation of best-selling novel and hit film Practical Magic is being developed by author Alice Hoffman, Grammy winners Norah Jone and Gregg Wattenberg, and Merrily We Roll ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In advance of the book's appropriately autumnal release, we called up Hoffman to talk her lifelong obsession with witches, how she ...