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Tag Archives: By Meakin Armstrong
Interviewing Etgar Keret
He’s Israel’s top writer, a man whose work I adore—and I got to spend two hours with him for Guernica. In America, where writers are preoccupied with the craft of writing, I always try to introduce this concept of the … Continue reading
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My Essay on Emanuel A.M.E. Church and Dylann Roof
I lived in Charleston, SC from when I was around 11 to 20 years old. I went to a private, all-white elementary school right next door to “Mother Emanuel,” Emanuel A.M.E. church. I wrote an essay about the #CharlestonShooting — … Continue reading
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Tagged #blacklivesmatter, #charlestonshooting, By Meakin Armstrong, essay
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The People’s Pervert: John Waters
I interviewed John Waters for Guernica. Now at sixty-nine (“an embarrassing age,” he said at a recent appearance in New York City, “I don’t even like the sex position”), John Waters seems to have a career on the upswing: he’s … Continue reading
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Tagged By Meakin Armstrong, Guernica, Interview, John Waters, Meakin Armstrong
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Coming Up: A Guest Editor Gig
I just finished a guest-edit of a magazine and it’s got some of my best nonfiction writing in it. And the people I got to also write? Wow. The magazine comes out in December. Hint: the magazine is concerned with art and … Continue reading
New York: I Still Love You Best
No one who was in New York on 9/11 will ever forget that day. I still well up when I think of the firefighters a few doors down from me and how they lost half of their crew. Even now, … Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11, By Meakin Armstrong, Ground Zero, Islam, New York City, writing
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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
Posted in Blog, Copywriting, Editing, Fiction, New Clips, Short Story by Meakin Armstrong, Writing, Writing Samples
Tagged By Meakin Armstrong, copywriter, Copywriting, Fiction, Ghostwriting, My clips, nonfiction, SEO, Website
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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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Tagged By Meakin Armstrong, Copywriting, Fiction, Ghostwriting, Journalism, SEO, writing
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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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Tagged By Meakin Armstrong, Fiction, Public Reading, reading, writing
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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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Tagged By Meakin Armstrong, Guernica, Samuel Fuller, writing
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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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Tagged By Meakin Armstrong, Guernica
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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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