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I'm a freelance writer, online editor, fiction editor, blogger, and copywriter. I’ve written about everything from the World Economic Forum in Davos for The Atlantic’s Web site, to a great many travel pieces for The New Yorker and Condé Nast Traveler. I’ve contributed to five books.LinkedIn
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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 on readings and events.
Right now, clips are also available here: http://www.mediabistro.com/MeakinArmstrong
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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
The 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 start out being about one thing (such as in one of my favorites, Crimson Kimono , where it begins in a Noirish vein, with two cops investigating a crime in 1950s L.A.) only to veer off somewhere else (racism against Asians). Watching a Fuller film is seeing the unpredictable. It breaks the rules of “good” writing—and just goes for the jugular.
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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, tied him down, and threatened to saw his head off with a chainsaw.
I dislike overly dramatic memoirs, so I’m going to try to make the piece about something larger: the nature of nonfiction in general. (But I’ll also try to give you the drama.)
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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New in Noo Journal: “Baby Love”
I have a super-short fiction piece in the current issue of Noo Journal.
My work-from-home scheme fell on hard times and we had to move to another place, a property I’d bought as an investment, but had never planned on living in. It smelled of dogs and children. Even after we’d been there for many years, we found rawhide bones and pacifiers behind the refrigerator, under the stove, and in the basement.
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Have My Own Page on The Atlantic Site
Still busy posting for The Atlantic, and now have my own page, here
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Blogging: A Return to TheAtlantic.com
For the next few weeks, I’ll be blogging for The Atlantic on environmental issues.
So far, the favorite thing I’ve written about is the “sky farm”–a skyscraper that’s filled with crops, not people. They can grow enough in one of those things to feed 40,000 people. This one is a great gig.
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Reading: Happy Ending, Feb. 11th
Thursday, 8:00 pm. Happy Ending, at 302 Broome St., between Forsyth and Eldridge.
It’s free. Happy Ending is a great bar with an interesting history: it used to be a “massage” parlor (hence the name). They’ve kept the exterior and some of the gear intact, but otherwise, it’s a fancy place.
Here’s the info on the reading:
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Blogging: On Davos for TheAtlantic.com
I’m writing about the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, from a small-business perspective. I’m doing two posts a day, for the length of the meeting. Here are my posts
Update: The Atlantic redesigned their site, and unfortunately, my postings are no longer there. A JPEG of my postings is downloadable.
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Reading: Tandem Readings, January 17th
Looks like I’m taking part in Tandem Readings’ monthly reading series at CELL THEATRE on the 17th.
It’ll be with some great people: Irina Reyn, I introduced at a PEN World Voices event that Guernica sponsored a while back, and damn, she’s good.
Jonathan Miles a friend (just last night) was telling me is amazing. supposedly, his book is hilarious. And I’ve heard good things about Jonathan Tel, too.
New in elimae: A Microfiction Piece
I’m so happy to be in elimae! I remember that site from years and years ago, before I even thought of writing anything but screenplays. They’ve since outlasted legions of literary sites by years.
I mean YEARS. (They were founded in 1996.)
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Reading: Old Made, Nov 11th
I’ll be reading at Old Made in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on November 11th at 441 Metropolitan Avenue, along with Catherine Foulkrod, Meghan Punschke, and Matthew Thorburn. It’s going to be a new short story I’ve finally finished.
