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A Ginsberg Love Fest at First Blues

  Oh, I am still on cloud 9 after the First Blues event to celebrate Allen Ginsberg’s recording!! I got there a bit late, and it was jam-packed with white-haired men who’d probably known various beat poets back in the ‘40s and ‘50s, and earnest, young, bearded hipsters, and girls in leggings and berets. I [...]

Clip: St. John’s Leads the Nation in Civil Rights

Burnside Writers Collective published my article “St. John’s Leads the Nation in Civil Rights,” about the civil rights history of the Church of the Presidents. The article includes information on Barack Obama’s inauguration and Martin Luther King Day. Filed under: Clips, Faith Tagged: architecture, Barack Obama, Burnside Writers Collective, Church of the Presidents, civil rights, [...]

Greek-American Tina Andreadis Promoted to Senior VP of Publicity at HarperCollins

HarperCollins Publishers promoted Tina Andreadis to senior vice-president of publicity, according to Publishers Lunch.  Hired in 2005 as vice president, director of publicity, Andreadis oversees publicity for many of the publishing house’s imprints. The Greek America Foundation named Andreadis as part of the Class of 2010 winners of the Forty Under 40; she was thirty-nine [...]

Lou Reed, Anne Waldman, Hettie Jones, and Others Celebrate Allen Ginsberg’s FIRST BLUES

Image via Housing Works If you’ve never heard Allen Ginsberg read “Howl,” you can’t grasp its full intensity. Ginsberg has one of those voices you can’t shake out of your head, a voice you could hear once and then ten years later still recognize. It’s even but possessive, sucking you into the inner crevices of [...]

Liking “On the Road” Makes You Undatable

A while back The Huffington Post, run by Greek American Arianna Huffington, posted an article entitled “9 Books That Make You Undatable.” Among the books was Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. The reason?  Well, according to The Huffington Post, liking On the Road signals commitment issues and money woes. Apparently no one ever reads a [...]

Sneak Peek of Burning Furiously Beautiful: Early Draft of “On the Road” Reveals Tragic Life Story of Kerouac’s Dad

From chapter 1 of Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of “On the Road,” the book I’m coauthoring with Paul Maher Jr.: Life was no easier for the paternal side of Jack Kerouac according to this retelling of the Kerouac lineage. Leo Duluoz, a pseudonym for Jack’s father Leo Kerouac, was six years old when [...]

Clip: Art to See Across the Country This New Year

A Word Made Flesh…Throat, by Lesley Dill (1994). Gift of Stanley Freehling. via the Art Institute of Chicago Burnside Writers Collective published my roundup of art exhibits to see across the country at the start of this new year. The list emphasizes shows that touch on themes that will challenge your worldview. What did I [...]

Blogiversary: Greeks Beat Kerouac in 2012

January 1 marked the anniversary of my blog! Thank you all for your support and encouragement of my writing and blogging. It means so much to me that you take the time to read and comment on my blog entries. I just reviewed a report of my year in blogging, and it’s been a good [...]

Nominated for the Blog of the Year Award 2012

I was nominated for the Blog of the Year Award 2012! Special thanks to Tarisai from Writersfield for the nomination. It’s amazing how much social media has influenced my life and work, connecting me to other writers, bloggers, and readers. Filed under: Clips, Writing Tagged: award, blogging, social media

The Light Holds Harvey Shapiro

I have just learned that Harvey Shapiro passed away yesterday. Shapiro, whose first language was the endangered language of Yiddish, is the person who suggested Martin Luther King, Jr., compose a letter while he was in jail. The result was “Letters From Birmingham Jail,” which Shapiro wasn’t able to get published at The Times Magazine, [...]