5/27/2023 0 Comments The Red Garden by Alice HoffmanKUSC program director and radio host Gail Eichenthal mediated Monday night’s discussion, which mostly centered on Hoffman’s latest novel, The Red Garden. “The process is finding out what the story really is.” “Fiction really comes alive when the characters start to have enough life that they make their own decisions,” Hoffman said. Just as her characters come to understand the mysticism that flourishes in their lives, Hoffman said she uncovers magic every day when she settles before her laptop in a quiet room. The event that took place at the Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills was sponsored by Writers Bloc Los Angeles, a lecture series that hosts novelists, journalists and screenwriters. Hoffman, a prolific novelist who has penned more than 30 books, let an audience of devoted readers in on the secrets to her inspiration Monday. Instead, Hoffman’s magic is seamlessly and ironically juxtaposed with realism as she explores the innate bonds between mothers, daughters and sisters, along with the human race’s inexplicable ties to plants, animals and the wild temperament of Mother Nature. There are no wizards or sorcerers in Hoffman’s novels, though witches or apparitions do occasionally weave themselves in and out of her narratives. “Magical” is a word frequently used to describe the writing of Alice Hoffman, but that does not, by any means, make her a predecessor to J.K.
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