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October 26, 2015
Consulate General of Greece in New York Proves That Current Greek Art Matters
The new art exhibion Colors of Greece at the Consulate General of Greece in New York is a phenomenal display of artistic diversity. I was thoroughly impressed by the variety of subject matter and aesthetic style of Greece’s contemporary artists. Contemporary Greek art—be it visual art, as it was in this case, or […]
October 21, 2015
Should We Judge the Quality of a Memoir by Its Confessions?
Leslie Jamison Credit Illustration by R. Kikuo Johnson via The New York Times At the Hobart Festival of Women Writers, part of my class, “Writing Under the Influence of the Beat Generation,” was about confessional writing. As a class, we took a look back at the first examples of confessional writing in literary history before […]
October 20, 2015
How Do You Like Them Apples?
Every year my friend organizes an autumn apple-picking trip. It’s a nice break from fighting long lines in tiny aisles at grocery stores in New York City. Also, it always makes me think of helping my dad out on the garden in Greece. I took the bus out to Fort Lee, New Jersey, to meet my fellow […]
October 14, 2015
How to Get an Editor’s Attention
The other day I wrote about John Freeman’s new literary magazine, Freeman’s. I’d started that blog entry as an introduction to an article he’d written for Electric Literature, but it got unwieldy. At least in blogging terms. Internet readers like their posts pithy! In “Anatomy of a Discovery: How a Literary Magazine Finds New Writers,” […]
October 12, 2015
“I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.” ~Michel Foucault
“I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the […]
October 11, 2015
The Personal “I” in Literature: Narcissus & Literature at the Onassis Festival
Is writing inherently narcissistic? Even when writing in the third person, can the writer ever fully disappear from the page? Is the personal “I” more trustworthy in journalism because it acknowledges the reporter’s presence? Is the personal “I” in literary fiction more prone to becoming an unreliable narrator than a third-person narrator? Lorin Stein, editor […]
October 8, 2015
Lowell Celebrates Kerouac 2015 Is Underway
Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! is officially underway, kicking off on Monday with a reading by Michael McClure. As if McClure alone wasn’t enough to draw a crowd, Tim Z. Hernandez, author of Manana Means Heaven, and David Amram will be there, along with lots of other special guests and a great crowd of Beat scholars and […]
October 7, 2015
The Wall Street Journal Excludes Greek American Novels in Its List about the Immigrant Experience
In a list of “10 Notable Novels about the Immigrant Experience,” there are bound to be many great and notable novels who don’t make the cut. This isn’t about just literature, though. This isn’t just about craft or sales numbers. It’s nice to see a novel about a Swedish-American family on the list, as we […]
John Freeman’s New Lit Mag Packs in High-Profile Writers
John Freeman has a new literary magazine. The eponymous Freeman’s already it has the literary world buzzing. In the internet age where everyone and their long-lost brother publishes a lit mag, it’s rare that a new publication garners this much attention. But this is John Freeman we’re talking about. While on the board of the […]
September 30, 2015
Memoirist Michael W. Clune Speaks on Exploring Solitude in His New Book
My brother could probably play video games before he could walk. He recently told me about a book he was reading about a woman from the same tech sphere as him. Big sister as I am, I naturally clicked on an article a video-game inspired book when I saw it in case it might be something […]
