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Writing Wednesday: 10 Reasons Memoirists Should Make Time to Keep a Diary

I wrote recently about how Jack Kerouac kept a dream journal and have been blogging a lot about social media. In a recent Salon article, Michele Filgate wonders “Will social media kill writers’ diaries?: Now Facebook and Twitter are business necessities, they may be losing writers’ journals. Is something lost?” Filgate writes that authors’ personal […]

Clip: 10 Amazing Topiaries: Pruning Toward Whimsy

The first time I went to Disney World in Florida, I remember being spectacularly impressed by the topiaries. I was in fifth grade. Oh, sure, the rides were fun, and it was exciting to have costumed Mickey and Minnie sign my autograph book, but I was expecting that. What I wasn’t expecting were the small […]

Nikolopoulos Revives Homer’s Poetic Language

The National Herald featured me! In the article, I talk about “dead” languages, that great Greek roadtripper Homer, and Scripps College. Filed under: Endangered Languages, Greekish, Writing Tagged: Ancient Greek, endangered language, Greek language, Greek poetry, Homer, media appearance, National Herald, road trip, Scripps College

New Trailer for “Kill Your Darlings” Released

Poster photo via imdb The new Kill Your Darlings trailer released! You can check it out here. Kill Your Darlings is the film about the 1944 murder in which Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs were named as accessories. Just like in the film adaptation of On the Road where the Marylou/LuAnne character got a […]

Coming Soon: Greek American Fashion Week

Last year’s Greek American Fashion Show was so inspired that this year, they’re putting on an entire WEEK for Fashion Week: The Greek America Foundation is hosting “Greek American Fashion Week” September 4-8, 2013 with events taking place throughout New York City.  The week culminates in a Greek American Runway Show at Studio450 and after […]

If “Everything Is Possible,” Our Milestones Need to Change

Image from Singles via Salon In the second paragraph of Sara Scribner’s recent Salon article about Generation X, the journalist says: Few have even noticed that this small, notoriously rebellious clan – those born roughly between 1965 and 1980, which means about 46 million Xers versus 80 million boomers — has entered middle age. The […]

Bea Franco (October 13, 1920 – August 15, 2013)

I learned yesterday via Tim Z. Hernandez that Bea Franco, the woman who inspired Jack Kerouac to write one of his most beautiful passages in On the Road, passed away at the age of 92. Bea Franco was the real-life woman behind Terry, “the Mexican girl,” in On the Road. Hernandez tracked her down in […]

Clip: A Time to Search

Burnside published my latest art post in the “A Time to…” series. It’s A Time to Search   In case you missed the previous posts in the series. They are: A Time to Embrace A Time to Refrain from Embracing A Time to Gather Stones A Time to Scatter Stones A Time to Dance A […]

The Light and Life of Greek American Neon Artist Stephen Antonakos (1926–2013)

I learned via Gregory Pappas, founder of the Greek America Foundation, that artist Stephen Antonakos passed away this weekend. I had the great privilege of attending an exhibition of Antonakos’ neon sculptures at the Lori Bookstein Fine Art gallery here in New York City when the abstract artist was honored for the Gabby Awards Lifetime […]

Friday Links + More Than a Thousand People Like Our Book!

Paul emailed me the other day that we’d crossed the thousand-“like” threshold on our Facebook page for Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road.” I wrote him back: “!!!!!!!!!” …Give or take a few exclamation points. I cannot thank all of you enough for your support. It means so much […]