"Alice Hoffman" is an American novelist and Young adult literature/young-adult and Children's literature/children's writer, best known for her 1996 novel Practical Magic (novel)/Practical Magic, which was adapted for a 1998 Practical Magic/film of the same name. Many of her works fall into the Literary genre/genre of Magic realism#Literature/magic realism and contain elements of magic (paranormal)/magic, irony, and non-standard romantic love/romances and relationships.

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Books may well be the only true magic.

I'm thinking of reading something by chef Paul Prudhomme. It's a reading of all kinds of Southern literature.

It was said that boys should go on their first sea voyage at the age of ten, but surely this notion was never put forth by anyone's mother. If the bay were to be raised one degree in temperature for every woman who had lost the man or child she loved at sea, the water would have boiled, throwing off steam even in the dead of winter, poaching the bluefish and herings as they swam.

We're helping the survivors of Katrina, having our voices heard, and it's a great way to take back Sept. 11.

When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.