Stephanie Nikolopoulos's Blog, page 58
August 9, 2012
Photographs from the Olympics in Greece
I couldn’t pass up going to the Olympics when they were held in Athens in 2004. At last, the Olympic Games were back where they began! The men’s and women’s shot put tournament were even held in Olympia, the original site of the Olympics. The rest of the games were in [...]

Published on August 09, 2012 03:00
August 7, 2012
Exclusive Interview with J. Haeske, Author of Retracing Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac is the type of author who inspires pilgrimages. People don’t just read his novels. They endeavor to live his novels. And because much of Kerouac’s work is based on actual places, it’s easy for fans to track down not just his birth home and the bars he wrote in but the very places [...]

Published on August 07, 2012 03:00
August 6, 2012
Photographs from My Trip to the Ancient Olympics
Are you watching the Olympics right now? My family lives close to where the very first Olympics were held — the Olympic games began in 776 BC in Olympia, which is in the Peleponnesus in Greece – so over the years, I’ve visited Olympia more times than I could possibly [...]

Published on August 06, 2012 03:00
August 2, 2012
Clip: Chapel-Turned-Brewery Hopping
Burnside Writers Collective published my latest Church Hopping column. In this edition of my ongoing column, I visit Brewery Vivant in Michigan. What’s now a trendy Grand Rapids beer hall used to be the Metcalf Funeral Chapel. Writers Kim Gottschild and Larry Shallenberger join me. You can read the full article here. For [...]

Published on August 02, 2012 03:00
August 1, 2012
Save the Date! I’m reading at Sidewalk Cafe on August 12
Image via the event’s Facebook invitation Poet RA Araya invited me to read from Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, the book I’m coauthoring with esteemed biographer Paul Maher Jr. It’s going to be an AWESOME event! I’m so honored to have been invited to read as part of [...]

Published on August 01, 2012 03:00
July 31, 2012
Tasty Tuesday: Karpouzi! (Watermelon!)
Nothing says summer like fresh watermelon! I found these at a market in the Hamptons. How about cutting up a few slices and serving it up with ouzo? Filed under: Food and Drink, Greekish Tagged: food and drink, Hamptons, ouzo, Tasty Tuesday, watermelon

Published on July 31, 2012 03:00
July 30, 2012
Judging On the Road by Its Covers
Okay, by now you’ve probably heard about the six year old who guesses what classic novels are about based on their covers, but I can’t resist rehashing her cute take on this early On the Road cover: “I think it’s about a car. A car that goes to Mexico, Indonesia and other places. [...]

Published on July 30, 2012 03:00
July 27, 2012
Poetry, Picnics, and Catching up with Friends at the New York City Poetry Festival
Last weekend was so perfect. The Poetry Society of New York held its annual New York City Poetry Festival, two full days of poetry, performance, creativity, and general amazingness out on Governor’s Island. The last time I was at Governor’s Island, I was there to see She & Him — you know, the retro-tuned [...]

Published on July 27, 2012 03:00
July 26, 2012
Road Trip Writing: On the Road and “Human Snowball”
Many summers ago, a couple of poets and I dragged some rickety chairs outside of the Bowery Poetry Club and sat in a circle, chatting about our writing, our day jobs, and life, as people passed by, sometimes stopping to talk to us. One of the girls in the group worked at a publishing house, [...]

Published on July 26, 2012 03:00
July 25, 2012
Recap to the Kickoff Party for Mediabistro’s Literary Festival (with links to pics!)
Headed over to mediabistro.com‘s kickoff party for its first-ever Literary Festival last week and had such a wonderful time catching up with friends in the industry and meeting new people! It was great chatting with Carmen Scheidel, who is so knowledgeable about the industry and great at connecting people with mutual interests. (She also happens [...]

Published on July 25, 2012 03:00