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July 7, 2016
Viewing Cassady’s “Lost” Joan Anderson Letter
The “lost” letter that forever changed Jack Kerouac’s writing style was recently “found” and put on auction at Christie’s last month. If you’re someone who has read any biography about Kerouac, you’ve heard of the infamous “Joan Anderson letter.” You know the importance of this letter. It is — what for it! — legendary. I […]
July 5, 2016
Peach Picking
Every summer when I was a child, my family would spend time with my cousins in Baltimore. Usually on the way to Baltimore or from Baltimore, my family would stop and go peach picking. My father would reach high into the trees to get the best, untouched fruit. We’d bring home barrels and barrels of fuzzy, squishy […]
July 4, 2016
Jack Kerouac’s Roman Candles
Jack Kerouac’s most famous quote is this gorgeous piece of prose from his seminal novel On the Road::: The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a […]
June 27, 2016
Quotable: The very thing that connected me…
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.” ~James BaldwinFiled under: […]
June 20, 2016
Quotable: I can never read all the books I want
“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental […]
June 13, 2016
Quotable: You wish the author…
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.” ~from J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the […]
June 10, 2016
I’m Reading Today with the Greek-American Writers Association
I’ll be reading one of my favorite stories from my memoir-in-progress tonight at 6:00 at the Greek-American Writers Association at Cornelia Street Cafe (29 Cornelia Street) in New York City. Admissions is $9. Opa! Filed under: Uncategorized
June 6, 2016
Quotable: The books that everyone else is reading
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” ~from Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood Filed under: Life Tagged: book, Haruki Murakami, quote, reading
May 30, 2016
Quotable: A Room Without Books…
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” ~Marcus Tullius CiceroFiled under: Life Tagged: books, Cisero, house, library
May 23, 2016
Quotable: We Die to Each Other Daily
“We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember […]
