As Oprah heads to cable, willher golden touch go with her? Nov 21, 2009
Alice Hoffman s book, Here on Earth, a modern reworking of the Emily Bronte classic, Wuthering Heights, sailed to No. 1 when Oprah gave it the nod. Warner Studios then turned it into the movie Practical Magic, starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman. (Boston Globe)
COA News, Nov. 5 edition Nov 7, 2009
Book Club Tuesday, Nov. 24 at 12:30 p.m. Book for Nov. is Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman. Monthly/Weekly Programs. (Billerica Minuteman, MA)
Meghan McCain Oct 16, 2009
Earlier this summer, author Alice Hoffman caught some flack for getting huffy with a critic via. Hoffman wasn't too pleased when Roberta Silman said Hoffman's novel "lacked the spark of earlier work" and that "the author doesn't deliver" in a Boston Globe review of her new book, "The Story Sisters.". (ABC News)
* Times are getting tougher for those who tweet before they think Oct 11, 2009
In June, the author Alice Hoffman apologized after tweeting that a Boston Globe book reviewer was a moron. . (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
• Gooding Public Library has new items Aug 25, 2009
"The Chestnut Soldier," "Charlie Bone and the Beast," "Emlyn's Moon" and "The Snow Spider" by Jenny Nimmo, "Isle of Swords" by Wayne Thomas Batson, "Renegade" by Ted Dekker, "The Magicians" by Michael Scott, "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan, "Aquamarine" by Alice Hoffman. Juvenile fiction. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
Tweeting with the stars a hoot for fans Aug 16, 2009
Ms. Krozser pointed to the example of novelist Alice Hoffman, who in late June took a reviewer to task in a series of tweets that damaged her own reputation in the process. Ms. Hoffman no longer appears to have a Twitter account. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
The author’s big mistake Aug 14, 2009
Alice Hoffman trashed a Globe reviewer in a now-famous Twitter message: Roberta Silman in the Boston Globe is a moron. How do some people get to review books. (Boston Globe)
'Bitter' theatre director aims poison pen at critics Jul 30, 2009
Bitter' theatre director aims poison pen at critics - Arts - Entertainment. The Age: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technology news from Melbourne's leading newspaper. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
'The Story Sisters,' by Alice Hoffman Jul 13, 2009
The Story Sisters,' by Alice Hoffman ... The Story Sisters,' by Alice Hoffman ... Alice Hoffman's latest novel, "The Story Sisters," explores the long aftermath of this brief abduction. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Twitt-iquette: Top 9 Twitter Faux Pas Jul 3, 2009
Author Alice Hoffman, Today show weatherman Al Roker and singer John Mayer (clockwise from left) are three people who have run into some trouble on Twitter ... Earlier this week, author Alice Hoffman caught some flack for getting huffy with a critic via. (ABC News -- Business)
Kicking The Critic Jul 3, 2009
ALICE HOFFMAN isn't the only author lashing out at a critic over a bad review. After reading a takedown of his "Pleasures and Sorrows of Work" in the New York Times Book Review, Alain de Botton lambasted critic Caleb Crain on Crain's personal blog, writing, "I will hate you till the day I die and wish you nothing but ill will in every career move you make." (De Botton later apologized for his outburst on Twitter, saying, "I am so sorry and ashamed of myself.") Earlier this week, Hoffman tweeted... (New York Post -- Gossip)
Book Buzz: What's new on the list and in publishing Jul 2, 2009
Alice Hoffman lashes out at a reviewer and blogger about her new novel. And Nigella Lawson's new cookbook shows you how to find the Christmas spirit in food. (USA Today -- Life)
Author unedited Jun 30, 2009
Local author Alice Hoffman, best known for film-adapted novel Practical Magic, has taken down the angry Twitter posts she wrote about a Globe freelance critic who recently reviewed her new book, The Story Sisters, less favorably than Hoffman (inset) would have liked. Hoffman called critic Roberta Silman a moron and said, via Twitter, Now any idiot can be a critic. (Boston Globe)
Novelist Lashes Out At Critics Jun 30, 2009
WRITERS are temperamental folk, but novelist Alice Hoffman takes the cake. Hoffman blew her lid when she not only received a so-so review from the Boston Globe's Roberta Silman, she got ornery with TheBookMaven blogger Bethanne Kelly Patrick during a Barnes & Noble discussion Patrick was moderating. (New York Post -- Gossip)
‘Story Sister’ lacks spark of Alice Hoffman’s earlier works Jun 28, 2009
8216;Story Sister’ lacks spark of Alice Hoffman’s earlier works - The Boston Globe ... Alice Hoffman (Andrew Harrer) ... THE STORY SISTERS By Alice Hoffman Shaye Areheart, 325 pp. (Boston Globe)
* SUNDAY PROFILE: Practical magic Jun 28, 2009
Alice Hoffman talks about love, her latest novel and her love of the magic in literature ... X Alice Hoffman, author ... So begins Alice Hoffmans latest novel, The Story Sisters (Shaye Areheart). (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
The Bookworm: Hot reads for summer Jun 23, 2009
Relax with The Story Sisters by Alice Hoffman or Sisters and Husbands by Connie Briscoe. Other goodies you won t want to miss: Roadside Crosses: A Kathryn Dance Novel by Jeffery Deaver, Singing Was the Easy Part by Vic Damone with David Chanoff, The ESPN Mighty Book of Sports Knowledge by Steve Wulf, A Rogue of My Own by Johanna Lindsey, Finger Lickin Fifteen by Janet Evanovich, Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon by Buzz Aldrin, and (deep breath) Return to Sullivan s... (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
From the Editor: Opinion editor takes humor, smarts to Ohio Jun 16, 2009
On Thursday, Alice Hoffman will be the featured BBC author (6 p.m. at Borders on Fair Oaks Boulevard; call (916) 321-1128 for more information). In September at the Galleria, the Sacramento Public Library and The Bee will team up to host Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez, whose nonfiction book "The Soloist" (now a movie) was chosen for the library's annual One Book Sacramento program. (Sacramento Bee -- Opinion)
Summer hours at library begin June 1 May 28, 2009
Spellbindingly charming, Allen s impressively accomplished debut novel will bewitch fans of Alice Hoffman and Laura Esquivel as her entrancing brand of magic realism nimbly blends the evanescent desires of hopeless romantics with the inherent wariness of those who have been hurt once too often. The next meeting of the Daytime Book Discussion Group will be Tuesday, June 16 at 1:30 p.m. The selection for the month is The Likeness by Tana French. (Holbrook Sun, MA)
'Looch' behaves himself in class May 20, 2009
As a fund-raiser for the Hoffman Breast Center at Mount Auburn Hospital, best-selling writer Alice Hoffman hosted an "An Evening With Your Favorite Authors" featuring such all-star scribes as Jennifer Weiner, Gregory Maguire, Sebastian Junger, Elizabeth Berg, Claire Messud, and Tom Perrotta. Former television reporter Joyce Kulhawik and WCVB-TV's Kelley Tuthill, both cancer survivors, also spoke. (Boston Globe)
• New materials at Gooding library May 5, 2009
"Awakening" by Robin Wasserman, "Ransom my Heart" by Meg Cabot, " Max" by James Patterson, "Untamed", "Betrayed", "Chosen", and "Hunted" by P.C. Cast, "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson, "The Rule of Claw" by John Brindley, "Mine Eyes Have Seen" by Ann Rinaldi, "Lock and Key" by Sarah Dessen, "Incantation" by Alice Hoffman, "Crank" by Ellen Hopkins, "The Hunt for Dark Infinity", "A Door in the Woods" and "The Journal of Curious Letters" by James Dashner. Children's. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
Let's hope the confidence is contagious Feb 10, 2009
Susan Orlean and Alice Hoffman will complete the 2009 subscription. Graham hopes to bring either Frank McCourt or Khaled Hosseini to town in 2010. (OregonLive, OR -- News)
