Stephanie Nikolopoulos's Blog, page 41
June 4, 2013
On the Road Gets a Girly Makeover
image via Cup of Jo The cover of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road got a girly makeover last month as part of author Maureen Johnson’s challenge Coverflip, which asked people to imagine how the covers of famous books would look if they had been written by people of the opposite gender. The experiment stems from […]
May 31, 2013
From the Comments Section: Kerouac and Steinbeck
If you happened to read the comments from my post Research, Research, Research, you saw me and author J. Haeske — of the fantastic photo tour blog Retracing Jack Kerouac and the book Anywhere Road – discussing why I had posted a photograph of Steinbeck’s Cannery Row while doing research on Burning Furiously Beautiful: The […]
May 30, 2013
Sweet Ride: Penguin Book Truck
Talk about a sweet ride! Look what I spotted at BookExpo America: That’s the Penguin Book Truck. Here’s Penguin’s press release on it: Penguin Group (USA) Launches The Penguin Book Truck And Pushcart NEW YORK, May 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – Penguin Group (USA) announced today the launch of its first mobile bookstore: the Penguin Book Truck […]
May 29, 2013
Research, Research, Research
Just a few of the books we’ve been using as research for Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road.” Filed under: Beat Generation Tagged: Ann Charters, Beat Generation, Burning Furiously Beautiful, Cannery Row, Jack Kerouac, James Joyce, John Steinbeck, On the Road, Portable Beat Reader, Ulysses
May 28, 2013
Sweet Rides: Literary Modes of Transportation
As I mentioned, I’ve been thinking a lot about transportation. So much so, in fact, that I was inspired to start a new board on Pinterest devoted to modes of transportation. It’s called Sweet Rides. I found some sleek cars that would make Neal Cassady‘s fingers itch, but I also looked at alternative vehicles and […]
May 27, 2013
Are the Beatniks Anti-American?
American flag outside Kerouac’s birth home I came to read Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti with little to no preconceived ideas about the Beat Generation. I had heard of Gilligan but never Maynard G. Krebs. I associated goatees with Ethan Hawke and turtlenecks with Sharon Stone. I liked the poetry bit […]
May 24, 2013
Shunning Cars … and Life
Last summer I relayed the news that Generation Y hates driving. Now it turns out, everybody hates driving. According to the recent The Exchange article “Why More Families Are Shunning Cars,” the CNW Research of Bandon, Ore., reported that in 2012 the percentage of US households without a car was the highest its been in […]
May 22, 2013
Clip: A Time to Dance
The latest in my Ecclesiastical “A Time to…” series posted on Burnside. Filed under: Faith, Visual Art Tagged: dance, Jack Vettriano, seaon, time, visual art
May 8, 2013
Clip: A Time to Mourn
Burnside published my visual art take on the verse “a time to mourn.” You can see it here. Filed under: Faith, Visual Art Tagged: Burnside Writers Collective, death, mourn, sadness, season, time, visual art
May 7, 2013
Brunch with Artists & Entertainers at the Lotos Club
Last month Scripps College invited me to attend a lovely brunch amongst friends and fellow alumni at The Lotos Club: Alumnae Panel: The Arts and Entertainment Scene in NYC Mitra Abbaspour ’99, Associate Curator, The Museum of Modern Art Barbara Barna Abel ’84, Casting Director and Coach, ABEL intermedia Elizabeth Robbins Turk ’83, Artist, 2010 [...]
