Stephanie Nikolopoulos's Blog, page 38
July 30, 2013
I Am One in 20 Million
I just read in Shelf Awareness that Goodreads has reached 20 million readers. While that number itself is impressive, even more astonishing is the fact that in this past year alone they had doubled their numbers. I joined Goodreads a while back after someone at a Mediabistro party raved about it as a great way […]
July 29, 2013
The Quotable Greek: All Paid Jobs
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. ~ Aristotle Filed under: Greekish Tagged: Aristotle, economy, money, The Quotable Greek
July 26, 2013
Friday Links: Homer and Kerouac
Happy Friday! Any exciting plans for the weekend? I’ll be at the New York City Poetry Festival. Poet RA Araya invited me to read as part of the line up for Miguel Algarin’s Brooklyn Poetry happening on Saturday at 11:40 at the Algonquin stage on Governor’s Island. If you want to come, take the first […]
July 25, 2013
Clip: The Engagement Room
Random International. Rain Room. 2012. Photo via Have you heard about the Rain Room at MoMA? I read a really sweet story about it the other day and blogged about it for Burnside. You can read it here. Filed under: Clips, Faith Tagged: Burnside Writers Collective, clip, love, MoMA, sister, visual art
July 24, 2013
Clip: New Abstraction News
Back in 2008, I had the fun experience of doing PR for Lesny JN Felix‘s art exhibit at Gallery Bar down on the Lower East Side. I got to see his paintings, wrote up his press release, and helped him with set up for the opening reception. We also attended other artists’ shows and had […]
July 22, 2013
The Quotable Greek: No Matter How Slow
Never discourage anyone…who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. ~ Plato Filed under: Greekish Tagged: encouragement, Plato, progress, The Quotable Greek
July 19, 2013
Clip: A Time to Embrace … Or Not
Forgot to mention that Burnside published two of my art posts: A Time to Embrace A Time to Refrain from Embracing In case you missed them: A Time to Gather Stones A Time to Scatter Stones A Time to Dance A Time to Mourn A Time to Laugh A Time to Weep A Time […]
July 18, 2013
Should Women Dismiss Beat Literature?
Image via Dangerous Minds Google+ was all the talk at BEA this year and last. I’ve been on the social media platform for a while now, but just the other day decided to see how it compares with Facebook for finding the latest conversations on the Beat Generation. I did a keyword search and […]
July 17, 2013
Strawberry-rubarb Bread and Books
Came in to the publishing house and discovered my coworker had made a delicious strawberry-rhubarb bread. I love mornings of delicious pastries, hot coffee, and books! How do you like to start off your day? You may also enjoy these other strawberry breakfast posts::: French toast at Supper Fage yogurt with strawberries and bananas Filed […]
July 16, 2013
Memoirists to Resent
Mallory Ortberg’s post “The Top Ten Writers Whose Success You’ll Resent This Year” (via Poets & Writers) on The Toast is hilarious and spot on. I kind of resent her for it. I mean, I could’ve written it. You know, if I’d actually thought of it. Here’s what she wrote about memoirists: The Memoirist Who […]
