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...
View ArticleThis 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...
View ArticleRoyal 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleKinky 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...
View ArticleWelcome 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....
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleNet 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...
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