Stephanie Nikolopoulos's Blog, page 4
March 30, 2018
fbp’s “Tomorrow Jams More”
#fbp’s ‘Tomorrow Jams More’ plus #OpenMic and #KatieHenryBand SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 2018 4PM-7PM @ #NuyoricanPoetsCafe (236 East 3rd St., New York, NY) $15 door See more info here. Featuring::: #ChrisBarrera vocals guitar songwriting Ciro Visconti II lead guitar Jonathan Toscano bass #KatieHenry vocals piano songwriting Misia Vessio drums vocals Jani Rose and sons poetry guitar vocals Camille Schmoeker interpretive dance Lorena Mnemosyne Cabrera belly dance Rick Villa […]
November 13, 2017
Live More Fully
My 2018 motivational calendar Live More Fully recently won Lulu’s Holiday Gift Guide Calendar Contest! I was so excited to be chosen because I truly loved working on this project, and I want its message to reach the world. This year has come with many challenges but through it all I’ve encountered extraordinary blessings. I’ve spent a […]
October 19, 2016
5 Quotes about Jack Kerouac’s Influence on Bob Dylan
So you may have heard that Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize. For Literature. At first, no one could get ahold of him. Then, when they did, he rejected it. The initial news, though, set the literary community ablaze. He’s a singer. A songwriter. Are lyricists worthy of literary awards? Some said no. In The New York Times article […]
October 1, 2016
Everybody Goes Home in October
Filed under: Beat Generation, Travel Tagged: Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac
September 15, 2016
Schedule for Lowell Celebrates Kerouac 2016
The annual Lowell Celebrates Kerouac is just around the corner. This year the event will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the publication of Jack Kerouac’s Satori in Paris. Here is the full schedule: Thursday, October 6 6:00 pm: Traditional Kerouac Pubs Tour. From the Old Worthen, 141 Worthen St. to Ricardo’s to Ward Eight to Cappy’s Copper Kettle. Led by Bill Walsh. 8:00 […]
September 14, 2016
The Literary Career of Joyce Johnson
Joyce Johnson is an award-winning author who also has an important role in the Beat Generation. After Jack Kerouac’s death, she helped get Visions of Cody published. In a 2012 interview with Michael del Castillo at Literary Manhattan, she explained: In 1972, when I was an associate editor at McGraw Hill, I was able to realize my dream […]
September 5, 2016
The First Critique Kerouac Read of “On the Road” on This Day in 1957
After years on the road, multiple drafts, and arguments over edits, Jack Kerouac at last saw the publication of the book that would put him on the map — On the Road — on this day, September 5, in 1957. He and his girlfriend, who would become an author in her own right, excitedly went to see how […]
August 29, 2016
I’ll Be on the Radio Today!
The lovely Simona David interviewed me for WIOX Community Radio to discuss the writing workshop — Literary Relationships: Writing In, Into, and To Community — I’ll be leading at the Hobart Book Village Festival of Women Writers. Tune in this Monday at 1pm to hear about why I love Hobart Book Village, why you need literary friendships like Allen Ginsberg and Jack […]
The Crickets Spread the Rumor
“The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last for ever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year – the days when summer is changing into autumn – the crickets spread the rumour of sadness and change.” ~from E. B. White’s Charlotte’s Web Charlotte’s Web made my list […]
August 22, 2016
One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer
“One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.” ~Aristotle in The Nicomachean Ethics Find my other posts on Aristotle here.Filed under: Greekish, Life Tagged: Aristotle, Greek, holiday, quote, summer, The Quotable Greek
