PHANTOM JETS an excerpt from Challenger a novel-in-progress by M. C. Armstrong I remember nothing negative about Khalid. But people change. This guy was brilliant. If he used his knowledge in a good way, he could have been a Nobel Prize winner. — Sammy Zitawi Khalid looked into the equations on the board and saw a […]
M. C. Armstrong
M. C. ARMSTRONG was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in Esquire, The Missouri Review, The Gettysburg Review, Epiphany, The Literary Review, The Virginia Literary Review, and other journals and anthologies. He is the guitarist and vocalist for Viva la Muerte, and lives in Greensboro, North Carolina.
M. C. Armstrong interviewed by David Bowen: A Dragon in the Hollow
David Bowen: Your novel, Challenger, is centered on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, named by the 9/11 Commission Report as “the principal architect of the 9/11 attacks.” Why this story? What drew you to approach this novel from his perspective? M. C. Armstrong: I think the novelist needs to find that thin line between “sympathy for the devil” […]
Contributor Bios for Issue 7 Winter 2013
Issue 7 Winter 2013 DAVID ABRAMS is the author of Fobbit (Grove/Atlantic), a New York Times Notable Book for 2012. It was also selected as both an Indie Next pick and for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers program. His short stories have appeared in Esquire, Narrative, Salon, Electric, Literature, Salamander, Connecticut Review, Five Chapters, […]
MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 7 Fall 2013
FEATURED ARTIST Glenn Brady It’s All Feel, My Dear INTERVIEWS M. C. Armstrong interviewed by David Bowen A Dragon in the Hollow Kelly Davio interviewed by Michael Schmeltzer Feeding One Another Andrew Hudgins interviewed by Okla Elliott Nothing Human Is Foreign to Laughter Stephen Kuusisto interviewed by Okla Elliott A Multiplicity of Visions George Saunders […]
THE HADITHA DAM by M. C. Armstrong
Soviet cement, Yankee tenants, Belches of Euphrates Pass SEALs on the eastern shore Contractors in ramshackle camps to the west. An ex-swat cop in a tea-cloth told me not to swim Unless I wanted cancer like the Hadithans, As if to confirm the rumors of Chemical Ali’s hidden stash— The secret flow. Every paper boy […]
Contributor Bios for Issue 1 Spring 2009
Issue 1 Spring 2009 V. JOSHUA ADAMS is a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago and editor of Chicago Review. JOE AMATO‘s recent books include Pain Plus Thyme (Factory School 2008) and Industrial Poetics: Demo Tracks for a Mobile Culture (Iowa 2006). His memoir, Once an Engineer: A Song of the Salt City, is forthcoming later […]
MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 1 Spring 2009
FEATURED ARTIST David-Baptiste Chirot NECESSITY IS THE MOTHERFUCKER OF INVENTION thoughts on the delete button THE NEW EXTREME EXPERIMENTAL AMERICAN POETRY a gallery featuring the visual works of poet, artist, and human rights activist David-Baptiste Chirot Jared Schickling, David-Baptiste Chirot FINDING THE ROOOT an interview conducted by Jared Schickling with David-Baptiste Chirot that will […]
