Stephanie Nikolopoulos's Blog, page 61
June 20, 2012
Your Invite to the Record-Setting Human Towers Being Built Tonight at 230 FIFTH
Filmmaker Ram Devineni is proving to the world the beautiful complexity of human language. In On the Road with Bob Holman, he traveled the world, documenting the plight of languages headed toward extinction. In The Human Towers he picked up his suitcase again, this time to film the art-sport-poem that is castells, human towers. [...]

Published on June 20, 2012 03:00
June 19, 2012
Death by Pomegranate
Branching out from writing of roses, of the myths and memories and makeup surrounding them, we turn to the Greek vegetation goddess, Persephone, also known as Kore. The daughter of harvest-goddess Demeter and Zeus, Persephone represents the changing of the seasons. One day she was out gathering flowers with Athena, goddess of wisdom, and Artemis, [...]

Published on June 19, 2012 03:00
June 18, 2012
Road Trip Writing: On the Road and The Canterbury Tales
Jack Kerouac once quipped back at a journalist, “I’m not a beatnik; I’m a Catholic.” Despite the Beat Generation being associated with the countercultural movement—sex, drugs, and … jazz—Kerouac’s writing so often points toward the spiritual. Visions of Gerard describes his saint-like brother who died at age nine and touches upon life in the Catholic [...]

Published on June 18, 2012 03:00
June 15, 2012
New Yorker Quips Greeks Invented Tragedy, Not Much Else Lately
I’m getting sick of the way everyone’s always ragging on Greece. I just read this comment in “Greece Vs. The Rest” in The New Yorker: Greeks are fond of pointing out that they invented democracy; they invented tragedy, too, and that is what their situation increasingly looks like, whoever wins the election. The problem [...]

Published on June 15, 2012 03:00
June 14, 2012
“On the Road” Makes “30 Books Everyone Should Read Before Turning 30”
Flavorwire listed “30 Books Everyone Should Read Before Turning 30,” and guess what’s on the list?! That’s right, Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. Unfortunately, this follows its inclusion: Plus, then you’ll have ample time to develop your scorn towards it. Why the scorn, Flavorwire? As, I wrote in the comments field: In the 10+ [...]

Published on June 14, 2012 03:00
June 13, 2012
I’m Reading at The Penny Farthing 6/18/12
I’ll be reading one of my Greek American stories this Monday night, June 18, at The Penny Farthing! The Storytellers event, hosted by C3, starts at 7 and will be in the super cool downstairs speakeasy of The Penny Farthing at 103 3rd Avenue (@ 13th Street) in New York City. Hope to see [...]

Published on June 13, 2012 03:00
June 12, 2012
Tasty Tuesday: Boukiés
When you’re Greek and you live in such a foodie city as New York, you get the following question posed to you quite often: What’s your favorite Greek restaurant in New York City? I’ve been asked it enough time that I should have a solid answer, but usually I end up staring off into space [...]

Published on June 12, 2012 03:00
June 11, 2012
I’m Mentioned in Sojourners
Oh my gosh! I forgot to mention back in April that I was mentioned in Sojourners!! Such an honor. My Burnside Writers Collective colleague Larry Shallenberger, whom I attended the Festival of Faith and Writing with, wrote the article “On the Need to Start an Ole Boys’ Club For Writers” about strong women literary voices, [...]

Published on June 11, 2012 03:00
June 7, 2012
Goodreads Page for Burning Furiously Beautiful
We’re on Goodreads! Now you can add Burning Furiously Beautiful as a to-read on Goodreads. Filed under: Beat Generation Tagged: Beat Generation, Burning Furiously Beautiful, Goodreads, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Paul Maher Jr., social media

Published on June 07, 2012 03:00
June 6, 2012
Official Synopsis for Burning Furiously Beautiful
You probably have a pretty good idea by now of what Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road is about, but here’s the official synopsis: Fueled by coffee and pea soup, Jack Kerouac speed-typed On the Road in just three weeks in April 1951. He’d been traveling America for the [...]

Published on June 06, 2012 03:00