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March 18, 2014
Speed Networking with Eventsy
Read any career advice book, and one thing is clear: getting the job of your dreams is all about who you know. The key to success, as you’ve heard countless times before, is networking, networking, networking. But what if the mere mention of networking sends shivers down your spine as you conjure up memories of […]
I’m Soooooo Pretentious
I told a boy I’m reading Proust, and he told me that sounds pretentious. He suggested I check out Michael Crichton. …As in the author who writes about dinosaurs. I have to laugh at the suggestion of sounding pretentious for reading Marcel Proust, though. I’m usually called immature and not well read for reading […]
March 12, 2014
Happy 88th Birthday to the Quiet Beat!
John Clellon Holmes is the friend Jack Kerouac was talking to when he coined the phrase “Beat Generation.” Holmes actually found success more quickly than Kerouac did in writing about the scene when he published Go in 1952. The writing style is vastly different than Kerouac’s, as it takes a much more traditional approach to […]
Happy 92nd Birthday, Jack Kerouac!
photo I took two years ago at Kerouac’s birth home when I attended Lowell Celebrates Kerouac On a Sunday in winter, Jean-Louis Kerouac was born to Leo and Gabrielle Kerouac in Lowell, Massachusetts. He was the baby of the family, the youngest of three, and his French-speaking family called him Ti Jean, or Little John. […]
March 11, 2014
Mino Cinelu Plays the Blue Note
At Greenwich Village’s famed Blue Note Jazz Club on a cold Monday night in February, instruments are strewn across the stage. There’s nary a place to step, yet Brooklyn-based French musician Mino Cinelu intuitively finds each new instrument he needs amongst the pedals and wires, without missing a beat. He seamlessly switches from drums to […]
March 10, 2014
“One’s Life Were Like a Museum”
“[O]ne’s life were like a museum in which all the portraits from one period have a family look about them, a single tonality….” ~Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust, translated by Lydia Davis Also Proust-related: Harold Pinter’s Proust Screenplay Shows at the 92nd Street Y Is Hollywood Glamorizing the Beats or Just Retelling Their Stories? Filed […]
March 5, 2014
Writing Wednesday: Reliving Those Awkward MFA Days
“This was a missed opportunity.” Haha. Enjoy. Filed under: Writing Tagged: Buzzfeed, MFAism, Writing Wednesday, writing workshop
March 3, 2014
Clean Monday
Go home and wash up. Clean up your act. Sweep your lives clean of your evildoings so I don’t have to look at them any longer. Say no to wrong. Learn to do good. Work for justice. Help the down-and-out. Stand up for the homeless. Go to bat for the defenseless. ~Isaiah 1: 13-17 In […]
March 1, 2014
Happy 89th Birthday to Lu the Glue!
“Lu was the glue,” said Allen Ginsberg, talking about how integral Lucien Carr was to connecting the people who would go on to become collectively known as the Beat Generation. Carr and Ginsberg met when Ginsberg came knocking on his dorm door at Columbia (well, technically they were attending Columbia but lodged at Union Theological […]
February 28, 2014
The Mardi Gras of Greece
This weekend is the big Carnival weekend in Greece. Don’t let New Orleans and Rio de Janeiro get all the glory. Patras is the number 3 for Carnival. Usually you can make it to more than one Carnival because Greek Orthodox follow the Julian calendar, while Catholics use the new, Gregorian, calendar. However, this year […]
