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June 17, 2014
The Starving Artist Eats Burgers on the BBQ
Summertime was all about BBQing when I was a kid growing up in New Jersey. (So much so that it even found its way into my memoir!) We spent many humid nights outside under a canopy of green leaves and stars, swatting away mosquitoes, as we ate food from the BBQ. Most of the year, […]
June 16, 2014
Happy Bloomsday 2014!
Doesn’t James Joyce look dapper?! Happy Bloomsday!! James Joyce set his rambling modern novel Ulysses on June 16, and today literary lovers around the world celebrate the iconic Irish author with marathon readings (it is about 265,000 words long!) and pub crawls. The raucous literary holiday takes its name from the central character of the […]
June 13, 2014
Happy 120th Birthday, Mark Van Doren
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mark Van Doren was born on this day in Vermilion County, Illinois. In 1920 he earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University and joined the faculty. Among his students was Lionel Trilling, who would also go on to teach at Columbia. They both taught Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. Trilling also taught Robert […]
June 3, 2014
Happy 88th Birthday, Allen Ginsberg!
Allen Ginsberg at the Miami Bookfair International on November 7, 1985. Photo by MDCarchives via Wikipedia. Today would’ve been Allen Ginsberg’s eighty-eighth birthday, and in honor of the Jersey-born poet’s powerful and beautiful work we asked people on the Burning Furiously Beautiful facebook page what their favorite Ginsberg poem was. I’ve loved hearing the […]
May 29, 2014
I’m Reading from My Memoir at The Penny Farthing
I’m super excited to share with you that I’m reading this upcoming Monday, June 2, 2014, with one of my favorite groups and venues! That’s right — I’m reading at Beyond the Mic, a C3 Storytellers event, hosted at The Penny Farthing (103 3rd Ave., downstairs in the speakeasy), right here in New York City. The […]
May 23, 2014
Happy Memorial Day Weekend!
Happy Memorial Day weekend! Are you doing anything fun?? Grilling out on the patio? Reading The Haunted Life? Reading Burning Furiously Beautiful? Hitting the beach? Spending time with the family? Taking a road trip?? Whatever you do, I hope it’s just what you want it to be! Here’s my Memorial Day post from last year, […]
May 12, 2014
I’m Leading a Free Writing Workshop Tomorrow
May 13, 2014. 7-9pm. Stephanie will lead a writers workshop with Nana and Maurice at the Redeemer Offices, 1359 Broadway, 4th Floor, Main Conference Room. Admission is free and open to anyone interested. Please bring 1-2 pages of your writing for critique.Filed under: Faith, Writing Tagged: Redeemer Writers Group, writing workshop
April 25, 2014
Link Love: Travel Tattoos
via DCER Would you ever pull over to the side of the road and get a tattoo while out on a road trip? Would you ever get a tattoo for each trip you took? What about a compass or the coordinates to your favorite place? A literary-inspired quote about travel? Here are a few travel-inspired […]
TODAY: William S. Burroughs Centennial Conference
image via CUNY William S. Burroughs turned 100 back in February — and we’re all still celebrating! Today the WSB@100 Festival continues at the CUNY Center for Humanities. What I particularly love about this event is how academic it is! Though the writers associated with the so-called Beat Generation are studied in colleges across the […]
April 24, 2014
See New York Through David Amram’s Eyes Tomorrow
Ever since pioneer jazz French-horn player David Amram mentioned that he’ll be doing an urban hike, pointing out places of importance to him on the Upper West Side, I’ve been counting down the days. I usually associate David with Greenwich Village. Whenever I see him play at Cornelia Street Cafe or (le) poisson rouge, he […]
