Monthly Archives: April 2010

I’m Moving On to a New Site

I’m slowly rolling this over to a new site, meakinarmstrong.com.  I’m hoping to have most of my clips on that site, including my copywriting and fiction clips.

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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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