C.E. MedfordMar 2, 20151 minPollution FictionI like a blogger with a social agenda. And I like a list where Magic America features alongside Dr. Seuss. Gasmask Productions Books...
C.E. MedfordJan 21, 20151 minHuman After AllI'm reading Annie Dillard's The Writing Life. There is certainly no shortage of writers writing books about writing - and that's not a...
C.E. MedfordJan 12, 20151 minOh My Stars!Happy to announce Magic America has just reached 100 ratings on Goodreads, and 66 of them are 5* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2270...
C.E. MedfordDec 30, 20141 minBooks and Bad Bitches (www.booksandbadbitches.com)There are people who won't get, won't like, get but don't like and hate your work. And there are people who get it, like it, and get...
C.E. MedfordNov 24, 20141 minFeedbackI didn't intend Magic America to be liked by everyone. It's a wonderful thing when someone loves your book. A wonderful thing because of...
C.E. MedfordNov 17, 20144 minCartilage: A little dead end off Main Street, Magic AmericaCartilage - (KT's point of view on Marco's love life) Gina just come on into the picture like she ain’t had no beginning whatsoever -...
C.E. MedfordNov 10, 20141 minBazooka JoeI just opened a pack of Wrigley's Extra white to discover it tastes exactly like the Bazooka Joe bubble gum with a comic inside that we...
C.E. MedfordOct 10, 20141 minNoelle & EddieI think my favorite scene in Magic America is when Freak Eddie carries Noelle off under the streetlights. The characters in MA are for...
C.E. MedfordSep 15, 20141 minC.E. Medford on Soho Radio's Free Seed ShowOn Wednesday, 10 September, I had the great pleasure of appearing on Soho Radio's Free Seed show. If you're in London, the studio at 22C...
C.E. MedfordSep 2, 20141 minBook Club Questions for MAGIC AMERICA now availableQuestions for book club discussion are now available on the 'BOOKS' page of this site. Please do get in touch if you have any suggestions...
C.E. MedfordAug 6, 20142 minSolitudeI’m reading One Hundred Years of Solitude. Slowly. This is partly by choice, deciding to read like a writer, rather than a reader, and...
C.E. MedfordJul 25, 20141 minThe Barrel FactoryMy nightmares are often based on recurrent urban themes. One is that I arrive in Brooklyn Heights where I lived for four years, to find...
C.E. MedfordJul 18, 20141 minEscaping realityI’m not a huge fan of reality in art. The primary interaction I want with a book is to be pulled out of where I stand, out of how I feel,...
C.E. MedfordJul 11, 20141 minWhat are you thinking about?“Writers by their very nature spend their time thinking about, wondering about, delving into, trying to understand the very things that...
C.E. MedfordJul 4, 20141 minPublication of Magic America - Coming of Age in an Altered StateMagic America started as a series of stories based on my experience of living in New Jersey as a teenager. Magic realism began to creep...