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A journalist, a storyteller, an editor and artist. Writing about life as I know it... funny, sad, infuriating, lovely, ironic, happy, poetic et al. Haunted by the paradoxes of life.

Newsletter · By Judith Spitzer · English · Official site

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  1. Issue · Sep 10, 2026

    Practical Magic and magical realism (opens the original)

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    Alice Hoffman, author of more than 30 adult fiction books, says she often writes about characters who are changed by books, as well as novels that include magic. Author of several tomes of magical realism, including “Practical Magic,” the 1995 novel that spawned a media franchise of the same name in 1998 starring Sandra Bullock, Dianne Wiest, Nicole Kidman, Stockard Channing, and Aidan Quinn, says her own childhood was less than blissful.“I lived a very ordinary and very unhappy life – my parent

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