CHICAGO (WLS) -- People are finding ways to reinvent themselves today as old pre-coronavirus methods no longer work. Since New Year's Eve 2011, guests have been mesmerized at the Magic Parlour, inside ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Magicians have long understood how to captivate an audience, and the craft is built on 19 ...

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.

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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 ...

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 ...

“I’m a project manager, not a magician!” Those are famous last words. As a pre-teen, I was occasionally interested in simple magic tricks. As an adult, I got hooked again, and now I perform magic ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- People are finding ways to reinvent themselves today as old pre-coronavirus methods no longer work. Since New Year's Eve 2011, guests have been mesmerized at the Magic Parlour, inside ...