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February 3, 2014
Jack Kerouac’s First Novel Translated in Persian, and It’s Not “On the Road”
More than fifty years after he rose to literary stardom in America, a novel by Jack Kerouac is being published in Persian for the first time, according to Iran Book News Agency. Rozaneh Publications hired Farid Qadami to translate Kerouac’s The Dharma Bums. Apparently you can get Farsi subtitles to the film adaptation of On […]
Salon Wonders: Is “On the Road” a Classic?
Oh, hey, that’s an ad for my book on Salon! “What makes a book a classic,” wonders Laura Miller in Salon. Wouldn’t you know it, Jack Kerouac’s On the Road gets a mention, amongst works by Seamus Heaney, Kurt Vonnegut, David Foster Wallace, Daphne du Maurier, P.G. Wodehouse, Toni Morrison, J. R. R. Tolkien, and […]
January 31, 2014
Friday Links: Link Love
Link Love Happy Fridaaaaaaay! Any fun plans for this weekend? I’m attending a friend’s apartment-warming and hopefully hitting up an art museum, in addition to doing some editing work. I added a new page to my website called Link Love. There I’m posting websites related to the Beats, Greece and Greek America, the writing and […]
January 30, 2014
Which Decade Do I Actually Belong In??
image via Buzzfeed I’m kind of a sucker for personality quizzes, so naturally I took Buzzfeed’s “Which Decade Do You Actually Belong In?” quiz. Anyone who knew me in high school would probably venture to say I should’ve been around in the ’60s. I became obsessed with The Beatles early on in high school, listening […]
January 29, 2014
Dani Shapiro Explains Memoir Is Not Autobiography
When I tell people I write memoir, they tell me that they don’t think they could ever write memoir. Their lives are too normal. No one would want to read about their boring lives. The implication is that they think I must be pretty hot on myself if I’m writing memoir. But that’s not what […]
January 28, 2014
Correcting My Joisey Accent
image via Harvard Dialect Study “You’re from Joisey!” all the West Coasters would exclaim when I moved out to Los Angeles for college and told them I had come from New Jersey. That’s what I said, “New Jersey.” Not “New Joisey.” Yet they hoisted the accent upon me anyway. My finger nails may have been […]
January 23, 2014
Kerouac Pub Crawl Set in Alabama
a photo of a bar in Lowell, MA, where there are also Kerouac pub crawls Anyone up for a Kerouac-inspired road trip to Alabama?! There’s an On the Road pub crawl in Gadsden, Alabama, on March 12 at 5pm. David Murdock, an English instructor at Gadsden State Community College, will be giving a lecture on […]
January 22, 2014
Immigrants à Gogo
image via Vulture Discussing how all immigrant writing is dystopian, the unique pressures of being the children of immigrants, and critiquing their own cultures, Boris Kachka’s interview with Chang-rae Lee and Gary Shteyngart in New York magazine offers brilliant insight on the state of immigrant literature. Here’s a quote from Shteyngart that particularly resonated […]
January 21, 2014
THE Beach to Visit in 2014
Greece—specifically Arillas Beach in Corfu—is listed by Fodor’s as one of the 15 Best Beaches for 2014. …And so is the Jersey Shore, with a shout-out to Ocean Grove. It’s like they’re just listing the beaches of my childhood. Can I give you an insider tip, though? For a less touristy, more authentic beach visit, […]
January 20, 2014
Keep Dreaming: Martin Luther King Jr., Amiri Baraka, Tamera Mowry, and Kim Kardashian
photograph of Martin Luther King, Jr., taken by Dick DeMarsico via Wikipedia Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. We need to keep on dreaming and keep on working for a better future. I was saddened and frustrated to hear about these two recent incidents: Why Tamera Mowry Cried to Oprah About Her Interracial Marriage […]
