About this episode

The episode features a discussion with Alice Hoffman about her writing journey, her novels, and the magic of books and dogs.

Alice Hoffman is the author of more than thirty works of fiction, including the Practical Magic series. We start this episode talking about beginnings and our favorite first pages of books. The three discuss how Alice got her start as a writer, the magic in Alice’s novels and the magic of books, moving in and living with school roommates, her new novel Witches of Cambridge, Anne Frank, her Best Dog in the World anthology and our love of our dogs, the Practical Magic movie and the upcoming seq...

People in this episode

Guest: Alice Hoffman

Topics covered

• Alice Hoffman
• beginnings in writing
• magic in novels
• school roommates
• dogs
• new releases

Keywords

• Alice Hoffman
• Practical Magic
• Witches of Cambridge
• Best Dog in the World
• Anne Frank
• writing
• novels
• magic

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Practical Magic, Witches of Cambridge, Best Dog in the World, Practical Magic movie

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