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I'm a fiction writer, fiction editor, former staffer at The New Yorker, Forbes Inc, and New York Times Custom Publishing. My editorial work has appeared in a variety of magazines (all of the way from Maxim to Good Housekeeping). My copy writing has been featured in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Condé Nast Traveler.
I am the recipient of scholarships to Bread Loaf Writers' Conference (a difficult award to get) and Summer Literary Seminars in Russia.
I've been anthologized in four times. My nonfiction has been praised in The New York Times. My work as an editor was lauded in Esquire.
I have an MFA from Columbia University and a screenplay of mine was once optioned by a major film production company.
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@MeakinArmstrong On Twitter
- RT @KathaPollitt: http://t.co/9nTLdd5S I'm troubled that so many think Komen "reversed its decision." Not true! That's lazy reporting. M ...
- RT @KathaPollitt: I'm troubled that so many think Komen "reversed its decision." Not true! That's lazy reporting. My take:http://t.co/9n ...
- RT @mathitak: Geoff Dyer: "I've been fortunate that all the bad reviews I've had have been written by idiots." http://t.co/TEtRoybs
- @guernicamag #fiction a Top 5 #Longreads of the week: http://t.co/pzSYiXMY
- @Guernicamag writer Chad Simpson wins Iowa Short Fiction Prize http://t.co/BhC3gNWw
- @sadchimpson congrats! And glad we got you in @guernicamag when the getting was good!
- Wow @sadchimpson wins Iowa Short #Fiction Award: http://t.co/BhC3gNWw
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- Last Night’s Reading | Meakin Armstrong on Reading: Freerange Nonfiction, May 5th
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Blogging for The Atlantic
As I’d noted earlier, I’ll be writing an occasional blog for The Atlantic on business trends. The link is here and it’ll be updated on Tuesdays and Fridays.
My Google Maps Piece is up
As noted earlier, I wrote a piece for The Atlantic, using Google Maps. It was a highly complex project and difficult to execute–I wrote pithy listings for some 125 spots all over the world. I also provided the client with … Continue reading
My Posted Clips
Just moved into my new site, meakinarmstrong.com. Continue reading
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Still Working on This Site
It’s a slow process, but I’m putting PDFs of my clips onto this site. Click on “Editorial Clips” for my freelance writing/journalism and “Copywriter” for my ad-driven writing. Eventually, I’ll also have my all of my fiction up, and information … Continue reading
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Sunday Salon: How It Went
That reading was one of my best. I read a short story I’ve been working on, “Burning From the Inside.” I’m glad it worked in front of a live audience. Supposedly the reading will be on YouTube at some point.
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Reading: Sunday Salon, June 13th
This Sunday June 13th at 7 pm, I’ll be reading a a new draft of a short story I’ve been working on at Sunday Salon. Continue reading
Cinema’s Beautiful Blowhard
I wrote an essay recommending Samuel Fuller’s work. A portion of what I said: “A Fuller film careers between drama and melodrama; it stars scene-chewing actors; is low budget, and has the subtlety of a machete. A Fuller film can … Continue reading
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Reading: Freerange Nonfiction, May 5th
I’ll be reading at the Freerange Nonfiction series this May 5th. I’ll be reading from something new: an essay about a particularly horrible event that happened to me when I was much younger: I interrupted a roommate who’d captured another, … Continue reading
Norman Rush: “Mating”
It took some convincing to get me to read Norman Rush. I expected his first novel, Mating, to be an obvious cross between Saul Bellow and a Victorian romance. It took me a long time to realize this: that’s not such a bad combination. Continue reading
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Jakob Dylan: “Women and Country”
“Because of a former roommate, I shut the door on Jakob Dylan. While my roommate played Dylan’s hit, “One Headlight” repeatedly, I escaped to my bedroom where I could listen to something else. She sang random bars from his songs all day. She shattered the few quiet moments in the apartment to blather on about Dylan’s “cuteness.” When she wasn’t doing any of that, she was comparing him favorably with Bob Dylan, saying that his father couldn’t sing or write a single good song —not a one.” Continue reading
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