11.   Most of these tales do not reflect the trademark magic realism of their author, a Nobel laureate, but reality itself.

12.   So in episodes of magic realism, Tita pours her emotions -- literally -- into her cooking.

13.   Solis admits to liking but not employing magic realism in his own creations.

14.   They think Haitian art and its trademark vibrant images of magic realism ultimately will have the same appeal to black Americans as African art.

15.   This slice of magic realism springs from fact.

16.   This woman, her husband says worriedly, likes to write and favors magic realism even though she lives in Connecticut.

17.   To Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the team was the personification of magic realism.

18.   But while it is based on actual events, Garcia Marquez says the book, like the rest of his novels, fuses reality with his trademark magic realism.

19.   Read The Mistress of Spices if you want to see for yourself how risky it is to attempt magic realism and a mannered style in a full-length novel.