Midnight Breakfast

  • Net Worth

    …we’re all still struggling to ascribe value to a digital product. Keeping a literary magazine alive in 2016 may seem impossible, but there are still those out there who are making it work. The Billfold asked the team behind Midnight…

  • How Emily Bell Became an Editor

    I knew I didn’t want to be a writer, but I thought I might want to work with writers and with brilliant minds who changed the way I thought about the world. Callie Collins interviews Emily Bell for Midnight Breakfast about her road…

  • Welcome to the Rest of Your Life

    Building a life based on lies was how my parents had taught me to live, and it would take a full twenty-one years after I left home the first time, at seventeen, to begin to try to do it differently.…

  • Kinky Reggae

    Kima Jones chats with Marlon James over at Midnight Breakfast; the two touch on ghost stories, Bob Marley’s reverberations, and the danger in assuming a story’s authenticity: Some of the things that people think are invented are actually true. It’s…

  • The Writer in the Science Family

    As the media expert at home, I’ve often dictated what movies and TV shows we should watch. That has sometimes meant I’ve been awful to watch anything with. “This show is so racist,” I’d say while watching something with family.…

  • Royal Sex

    In Rainey Royal, Landis explores the boundaries between sexual object and subject, victim and agent. Over at Salon, Eliza Berman reviews Dylan Landis’ latest novel Rainey Royal going deep into its accurate depiction of teenage sexuality. Curious, now? You can read an…

  • This Week in Short Fiction

    Monday marked Bloomsday, the annual celebration of James Joyce’s 732-page day-in-a-book, Ulysses. While this is hardly short fiction, Joyce is also often credited as one of the earliest practitioners of the epiphany, a technique that still burns bright in short…

  • Midnight Breakfast Makes an Awesome Debut!

    Rumpus interviews editor Rebecca Rubenstein recently launched a kick ass online literary magazine, Midnight Breakfast. The folks over at Vela Magazine were quite impressed with MB and Rumpus contributor Kima Jones‘s CNF piece, “The Aqiqah”: “It’s always exciting to see a…