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Meakin Armstrong

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Ghostwriter | Ed Lrg @nw_review | @GUERNICAMAG fiction ed 2006-2022 | Work/words: @LitHub @NEWYORKER @FORBES @BUSINESSINSIDER

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Joined April 2009
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Holy shit! I 'd like to report a murder.
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Really late to the party but this book is so damn good
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The Defector’s business model sounds incredible. It bypasses the two poles that hurt media sites: nonprofit morass and for-profit rapacity cjr.org/analysis/defector-la… via @cjr
‘The last good website’

‘The last good website’

Defector in pursuit of a journalists’ utopia

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I love those little magazines that punch far above their weight nytimes.com/2023/04/05/books…
How a Tiny Literary Magazine Became a Springboard for Great Irish Writing (Published 2023)

How a Tiny Literary Magazine Became a Springboard for Great Irish Writing (Published 2023)

The Stinging Fly has helped launch several of Ireland’s most promising writers. How has a publication with 1,000 subscribers carved a niche in the Irish canon?

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Can't wait to read this
Chelsea Bieker (@chelseabieker) profile pictureChelsea Bieker@chelseabieker8 Apr 2023
Thrilled to announce my next novel MADWOMAN will be published by @littlebrown !!! I am beyond honored and I can't wait for you to read it <3
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#Fiction writers! @WestBranchMag is looking for an Associate Fiction Editor. Fully remote. Details below! Apply and/or spread the word! #WritingCommunity
West Branch (@WestBranchMag) profile pictureWest Branch@WestBranchMag24 Mar 2023
Attention writers! West Branch is also in search of an Associate Fiction Editor! This is a paid and remote editorship, we’d love to have you join our team! Apply today!
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Today’s joy. #libraries
Anna Mazzola - is not here (@Anna_Mazz) profile pictureAnna Mazzola - is not here@Anna_Mazz28 Feb 2023
The smallest library in Italy. For over twenty years, a retired school teacher has been taking his ‘Bibliomotocarro’ of books to children in villages in Southern Italy.
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Jenny Croft (@jenniferlcroft) profile pictureJenny Croft@jenniferlcroft2 Mar 2023
Chris Pine called Olga Tokarczuk and me “pretty impenetrable” in @esquire esquire.com/entertainment/bo…
15 Books Chris Pine Thinks Everyone Should Read

15 Books Chris Pine Thinks Everyone Should Read

We asked our March cover star, a serious reader, to select five book recommendations. He picked fifteen.

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i understand you don't like that catapult relied on koch money but people just lost their jobs. i'd also point out that almost no money in publishing comes from clean hands, so if you don't like that, i wouldn't stay in this industry.
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Our editors are looking for queer narratives about finding community. We’re only reading completed essays. DM us!
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. @GuernicaMag writer Aysegul Savas in @lithub
Transit Books (@transitbooks) profile pictureTransit Books@transitbooks3 Feb 2023
"The interest of the book is not so much its autobiographical mirror but the way that life is endowed with an electric mutability. Madness, after all, disrupts the temporal narrative." Ayşegül Savaş on COLD NIGHTS OF CHILDHOOD for @lithub. Coming in May! lithub.com/aysegul-savas-on-…

Ayşegül Savaş on the Work and Career of Turkish Writer Tezer Özlü

I first read the works of Tezer Özlü in my mid-twenties, in the years when I knew that I wanted to be a writer but didn’t yet know what I should write, nor what sort of “identity” I mus…

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I am once again asking people to stop putting two spaces after periods
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molly@mollyEatsTofu15 Jan 2023
Was in Paris on Friday night and a handsome French man was flirting with me and I asked him what his name was and he said (very Frenchly) “Ah you will be disappointed” and I thought what a silly thing to say and then he said “it is Kevin” and you know what? I was disappointed.
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Ooooh. I should have asked this, too. I have a huge TBR New Yorker pile
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Wait, what? rollingstone.com/culture/cul…
The Book Community Thought This Author Died. Now, It Seems Her Suicide Was a Hoax

The Book Community Thought This Author Died. Now, It Seems Her Suicide Was a Hoax

Susan Meachen, a book author who allegedly died by suicide in 2020, returned to her former Facebook group to reveal that she isn't actually dead.

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Fake a suicide because you need a break from social?
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I love Joseph Roth (Radetsky March!) and can't wait to read this bio wsj.com/articles/endless-fli…
‘Endless Flight’ Review: The Vision and Anguish of Joseph Roth

‘Endless Flight’ Review: The Vision and Anguish of Joseph Roth

The author of ‘The Radetzky March’ saw the Europe he loved crumbling around him. He chose to remain as it fell.

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Support the new literary magazines. I know firsthand how hard it is to break new ground when you become obligated to your history
Becky Tuch (@BeckyLTuch) profile pictureBecky Tuch@BeckyLTuch4 Jan 2023
I'm putting together a list of newborn baby literary journals. If you launched a lit mag or know of a lit mag that was launched in 2022, please let me know about it!
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Somehow, this oldest-known sentence is very fitting theguardian.com/science/2022…
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