ISSUE 1 LIVE TOMORROW.
The Miami Native publishes three issues a year of serious writing about an unserious city. We articulate the existential stakes of Miami for its locals and translate them for the Miami-curious elsewhere.
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The Miami Native publishes three issues a year of serious writing about an unserious city. Our pieces are always Miami-relevant, in spirit if not in content, and so are our writers.
"And so went the start of the surrealist summer — the summer when we were always so back, but it was never really over." Funemployment: My Time with the Doctor. New fiction from
@rubysutt
From Issue 1 of The Miami Native. A Letter from the Editors. "It would be nice to have a center for ideas, too. A scene." Pre-order Issue 2, out in June, now.
@graziemana
@ginevlily
I poured my all into this and today it hits shelves! Come for the dismantling of our obsession with victimhood & virtue-signaling and stay for the story about why a solid IRL community is far better than an online one. Cop, review, share. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.
Issue II out now.
On canceling Spring Break, post-work American hierarchy, excess leisure, and why the future will be run by those who can enjoy it.
@graziemana
@ginevlily
"Nothing so resembles Miami like an attractive woman, chronically miscategorized as stupid— if only because she is stupid fun, and stupid hot."
Read our Editor's Note from
@graziemana
and
@ginevlily
.
"Miami has little in the way of public intellectual performance; even its nerds are required to be social, casual, suntanned, verbose and exuberant."
Read our Editor's Note from
@graziemana
@ginevlily
.
"We’re hearing a lot these days about subtle, old-money luxury. But old-money resort style isn’t minimalist. It is confidently utilitarian... Enjoying, not performing, a vacation."
@_lexeco
Chisme submission:
Major déjà vu walking into Jolene. It’s the same bouncer as Bardot from a million years ago. Do you think he remembers our fake IDs?
From Issue 1 of The Miami Native. "Cuban girls greet our enemies with kisses on the cheek, but we're suspicious all the time." Pre-order Issue 2, out on June 20th:
@byalexaferrer
"Tattoos are also one of the best things you can do to support the Cuban people on a trip to Havana. Cuban tattoos are unregulated. Technically, they’re illegal.��
@ebaueri
"For a while, there was a little iguana who lived inside of a grill I owned. He lived there so long I gave him a name...Then one day, I found him dead inside, melting into the metal."
By
@borywrites
"Our imaginary loves often proved more resilient in the end, had extra teeth, took hold of our arms or thighs and bore down like pit bulls."
A short story by
@graziemana
A conversation between painter Kate Bickmore and her gallerist, Andrew Reed, on painting like falling in love, the freckles of flowers, and finding the present in the Florida swamps.
"In LA, you’re using sage to cleanse bad energy from two-faced people. In Miami, you’re opening the gates to two-faced deities, and they don’t work for free.”
@byalexaferrer
“Cuban girls greet our enemies with kisses on the cheek, but we’re suspicious all the time. On Santería spirituality, the evil eye, and becoming good, guarded mothers.”
@byalexaferrer
"There is an entire Soviet universe in Miami, represented in two distinct classes of immigrants, bisected by Collins Avenue along familiar political and economic lines.”
"We were voluptuous women always speaking badly about each other, or well of ghosts, rather separate from the world except the one we made between ourselves."
@graziemana
In Miami, we experience the opposite of Bloomian over-thinking: not an anxiety of influence, but rather an eagerness for it. Thrilled to feature reading recs from lovely
@legroff
and The Lynx.
"In Miami, the fiercest way for a woman to demonstrate her unyielding individuality in motherhood… is to remain hot.” On social media mothering, “sexy” pregnancy, and getting paid to have it all.
@byalexaferrer
A city and people without a public square. A movement with no space for moving. “In the end they left us with nothing but the ultimate act of freedom: trespassing.”
In Common by Daniel Rivero.
@TooMuchMe