Stephanie Nikolopoulos's Blog, page 39
July 15, 2013
The Quotable Greek: By All Means Marry
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher. ~ Socrates Filed under: Greekish Tagged: marriage, Socrates, The Quotable Greek
July 11, 2013
Clip: Jazz and the Beat Generation
I’m super excited::: Roof Beam Reader invited me to participate in the Beats of Summer series! The literary blog is named after a J. D. Salinger novella and is run by a cum laude graduate of California State University, who earned an MA in English with an emphasis on American lit. He is now an […]
July 10, 2013
Stuff Jack Kerouac Hates
Erin La Rosa wrote a piece for BuzzFeed called “12 Things Famous Authors Absolutely Hated.” You know who hates something? Jack Kerouac. This, according to La Rosa: Anyone who read On The Road and thought Kerouac was suggested to take up a beatnik lifestyle… you were so epically wrong. Kerouac hated his time searching for […]
July 9, 2013
Save the Date: I’m Reading at the 3rd Annual New York City Poetry Festival
photo of me from the 2nd Annual New York City Poetry Festival I’ll be reading at this summer’s 3rd Annual New York City Poetry Festival! Poet RA Araya invited me to read from Homer’s epic road trip The Odyssey in the original Homeric Greek and from my book coauthored with Paul Maher Jr., Burning Furiously […]
July 4, 2013
Happy July 4th Weekend!
Hope you have a fantastic July 4th weekend!! I have off from the 4th and the 5th and am excited to spend some time with my family. No major plans, but sometimes that’s the best. Here are a couple links on patriotism from the archives in case you missed them::: “I Shared My Flags with […]
July 3, 2013
Clip: A Time to Gather Stones
Burnside published my art post A Time to Gather Stones. Filed under: Clips, Faith Tagged: Burnside Writers Collective, clip, season, time
July 2, 2013
Granta Publishes Travel Issue
My inbox got a recent happy surprise with the subject header: ‘The Road Is Life’ Celebrate the launch of Granta 124: Travel In case you don’t recognize the quote, it’s from Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. In part 3, chapter 5, he writes: Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer […]
July 1, 2013
Clip: One Object Many Ways: The Rose
Kalo mina! It’s no longer national rose month, but hey, you can still enjoy my post on how different artists have interpreted the rose. The one about is by Piet Mondrian — the guy known for neo-plasticism, you know: white background with a grid occasionally colored in with primary colors. You might also enjoy my […]
June 28, 2013
Friday Links: Commencement Addresses by Authors
June seems to have come and gone ever so quickly this year. I suppose that’s the nature of life. The older we get, the faster the days, months, and years seem to pass. I think even Einstein would agree. June always has thirty days in it—it’s not like sneaky February with its leap year—and yet […]
June 27, 2013
Lucky Peach Launched Travel Issue Last Night in NYC
Right after graduating from college, I embarked on a backpacking adventure across Europe. I made so many wonderful memories. My nerdy English-degree self sought out Oscar Wilde’s lipstick-stained tomb and visited the church where satirist Jonathan Swift was dean. And of course, I hit beaches from Nice to Greece. What I didn’t make memories of […]
