C.E. Medford

I like a blogger with a social agenda. And I like a list where Magic America features alongside Dr. Seuss. Gasmask Productions Books...

I'm reading Annie Dillard's The Writing Life. There is certainly no shortage of writers writing books about writing - and that's not a...

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...

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...

I 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...

Cartilage - (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 -...

I 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...

I think my favorite scene in Magic America is when Freak Eddie carries Noelle off under the streetlights. The characters in MA are for...

On 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...

Questions for book club discussion are now available on the 'BOOKS' page of this site. Please do get in touch if you have any suggestions...

I’m reading One Hundred Years of Solitude. Slowly. This is partly by choice, deciding to read like a writer, rather than a reader, and...

My nightmares are often based on recurrent urban themes. One is that I arrive in Brooklyn Heights where I lived for four years, to find...

I’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,...

“Writers by their very nature spend their time thinking about, wondering about, delving into, trying to understand the very things that...

Magic America started as a series of stories based on my experience of living in New Jersey as a teenager. Magic realism began to creep...