Tag Archives: nonfiction

Reading in Union Sq Today

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Meakin Armstrong

Park-Lit has a simple concept: writers read from their work,  outside, in a public park. Today at 6:30 on the 21st, Guernica (in association with Park-Lit and Open City magazine) will be having a reading in Union Square Park. (On the south side, right in the thick of things, near the Washington statue). I’m not reading but acting as the MC for the event. The readers will be:

The readers:
Joshua Kors (nonfiction)
Terese Svoboda (poetry)
Alexander Chee (fiction)

More about the readers and who they are (they’re fabulous, by the way) at the Park-Lit site.

Posted in Blog, Fiction, Public Reading | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

My Posted Clips

Posted on July 11, 2010 by Meakin Armstrong

Just moved into my new site, meakinarmstrong.com. Continue reading →

Posted in Blog, Copywriting, Editing, Fiction, New Clips, Short Story by Meakin Armstrong, Writing, Writing Samples | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Reading: Freerange Nonfiction, May 5th

Posted on May 23, 2010 by Meakin Armstrong

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.)

Posted in Blog, Editing, Fiction Editor, New Clips, Public Reading, Short Story by Meakin Armstrong, Writing, Writing Samples | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Blogging: A Return to TheAtlantic.com

Posted on March 4, 2010 by Meakin Armstrong

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.

Posted in Blog, Editing, New Clips, Writing, Writing Samples | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Blogging: On Davos for TheAtlantic.com

Posted on January 27, 2010 by Meakin Armstrong

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.

Posted in Blog, New Clips, Writing, Writing Samples | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

ASSME: a site I’ve been writing for

Posted on April 14, 2009 by Meakin Armstrong


I’ve been participating in a community blog, for the group, ASSME (American Society of Shit-Canned Media Elites). They’re at assme.org I’ve written several entries so far. The latest one I posted today.

It’s a long piece I wrote that I could have just summed up with this song.

(Song makes me think of this Chesterton line, ““Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.” I’m wicked enough to prefer mercy.)

Posted in Blog, New Clips, Writing, Writing Samples | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

An Imaginary South: Advance Publicity for the Museyon book

Posted on April 4, 2009 by Meakin Armstrong

So says the blog entry:

The American South is deeply tied-up in mythology. While onscreen it’s immortalized in classics like Gone With The Wind — a film shot in California and starring a British actress — the real South is as complex as the wide variety of films that have tried to capture it. Join Meakin Armstrong as he travels the South from Atlanta and Savannah, Georgia, through South Carolina, Mississippi and North Carolina. End up in Natchitoches, Louisiana, the setting for two vastly different interpretations of the South, Steel Magnolias and John Wayne’s The Horse Soldiers.

The book I contributed to, Museyon: Film + Travel will be out shortly.

Posted in Blog, New Clips, Writing, Writing Samples | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment