Posts Tagged: Midnight Breakfast
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 to becoming an editor.
...moreWelcome 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. To unravel my past, to build a life hinged on the simple premise that I […]
...moreKinky 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 also this thing that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talks about with “The Danger of a Single […]
...moreThe 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. “And why don’t the women get to do more?” My mom would sigh. Over at […]
...moreRoyal 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 excerpt from “Rainey Royal” at Midnight Breakfast.
...moreThis 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 fiction (and at times too bright as some have told it). As a toast to […]
...moreMidnight 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 new literary site launch, especially when it includes complimentary original artwork. But when I saw […]
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