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September 11, 2013
Never Forget
In remembrance of September 11, here is the Church Hopping post I had done on St. Nicholas Church at the World Trade Center. Filed under: Clips, Faith, Greekish Tagged: 9/11, Burnside Writers Collective, church hopping, clip, St. Nicholas
September 10, 2013
I’m Reading at Jason Harrod’s Album Launch!
Jason Harrod invited me to read at the release for his new album Highliner on Friday, September 13. I’m super excited to help him celebrate his third album’s launch. Musicians Paul and Bets will also be performing. He asked me to read something related to wrestling with God or faith through hard times. Oh, the […]
September 9, 2013
The Quotable Greek: I’ve Never Had the Right Words to Describe My Life
“Emotions, in my experience, aren’t covered by single words. I don’t believe in “sadness,” “joy,” or “regret.” Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I’d like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, “the happiness that attends disaster.” Or: “the disappointment of […]
September 6, 2013
Photos from the Greek American Fashion Week Kick-Off Event
I’m about to head out to the Greek American Fashion Week Runway Event, so I’m leaving you with a few photos I snapped at the Greek American Fashion Week Kick-Off Event that was held on Wednesday night at the Lower East Side’s lush rooftop bar The DL. Parked outside was the aptly named Nomad truck, […]
September 5, 2013
On the Road Turns 56
image of the first edition via Wikipedia After years of work and years of trying to find a publisher, Jack Kerouac’s On the Road was published by Viking Press on this day in 1957. Filed under: Beat Generation Tagged: Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Clip: A Time to Give Up
Photo of Robert Falcon Scott’s failed exploration via The Smithsonian‘s article “The Doomed South Pole Voyage’s Remaining Photographs,” which states: “Their return trip would become one of the most dismal failures in the annals of polar exploration.” Burnside published my latest art post in the “A Time to…” series. It’s A Time to Give Up […]
September 4, 2013
Writing Wednesday: There Will Be Twerking at Brooklyn Book Festival
It may not be the VMAs, but the Brooklyn Book Festival isn’t your mother’s book club. The festival announced its schedule of events last week, and, yes, there will be twerking … or rather, the author of TwERK, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, will be on the panel Poetry in Performance. Here’s TwERK‘s overview, in case […]
September 3, 2013
Kill Your Darlings Gets the Cartoon Treatment
Kill Your Darlings, a film about a murder, isn’t the first film I’d personally think of for a cartoon treatment, but Randeep Katari created a cartoon image for it that’s actually pretty thought-provoking. You can view it here. Filed under: Beat Generation Tagged: Allen Ginsberg, Beat Generation, Kill Your Darlings, Randeep Katari, visual art
September 2, 2013
Jonathan Collins’ Beat-Inspired Paintings on View at the Paterson Museum
Remember a while back when I did an interview with painter Jonathan Collins, who created stunning works of art featuring Kerouac’s hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts? Well, starting this weekend, he has an exhibit up at the Paterson Museum! Here’s the press release::: The Paterson Museum is pleased to present “Beat Traveller: New Landscapes By Jonathan Collins.” This […]
August 30, 2013
Friday Links: Tennis
Sir John Lavery’s Played! We writers aren’t known for being the sportiest bunch. Oh, sure, there are exceptions to the rule, and if you read my blog regularly you know that I write about one such writer: Jack Kerouac, who went to Columbia on a football scholarship. I don’t know how it is that of […]
