Your interest in fairy tales, myth, and fantasy comes through in many of your novels. Did you read any works which inspired you while writing Magic Lessons? How did this interest influence the writing of Magic Lessons?
AH: I don’t read while I’m writing fiction—–I don’t want to be influenced by other stories or ideas. But the stories I read as a child and the books that I love are with me always. The Grimms’ fairy tales, the myths and legends, and the stories my Russian grandmother told me are always a part of what I write. In this case, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic novel The Scarlet Letter was hugely influential.
Can you tell us what you’re working on now?
AH: I’m working on the fourth book in the Practical Magic series, called The Book of Magic. It’s likely the last of the series as well, and takes place in modern times, so that readers find out what happened to Sally’s daughters, Kylie and Antonia, and they also discover what happened to Vincent Owens. For me, it’s been a pleasure to spend more time with the Owens family.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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ALICE HOFFMAN is the author of more than thirty works of fiction, including The World That We Knew, The Rules of Magic, Practical Magic, the Oprah’s Book Club selection Here on Earth, The Red Garden, The Dovekeepers, The Museum of Extraordinary Things, The Marriage of Opposites, and Faithful. She lives near Boston.
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ALSO BY ALICE HOFFMAN
The World That We Knew
The Rules of Magic
Faithful
The Marriage of Opposites
The Museum of Extraordinary Things
The Dovekeepers
The Red Garden
The Story Sisters
The Third Angel
The Ice Queen
Blackbird House
The Probable Future
Blue Diary
The River King
Local Girls
Here on Earth
Practical Magic
Second Nature
Turtle Moon
Seventh Heaven
At Risk
Illumination Night
Fortune’s Daughter
White Horses
Angel Landing
The Drowning Season
Property Of
YOUNG ADULT NOVELS
Green Heart
Green Witch
Incantation
The Foretelling
Green Angel
Indigo
Aquamarine
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Hoffman, Alice, author.
Title: Magic lessons / Alice Hoffman.
Description: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. | New York : Simon & Schuster, 2021. | Series: The practical magic series
Identifiers: LCCN 2020020294 | ISBN 9781982108847 (hardback) | ISBN 9781982108861 (ebook)
Subjects: GSAFD: Occult fiction. | Historical fiction.
Classification: LCC PS3558.O3447 M34 2021 | DDC 813/.54—dc23
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ISBN 978-1-9821-0884-7
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