Stephanie Nikolopoulos's Blog, page 65
April 16, 2012
Memoir Outtake: Albanian Greeks at the Greek Consulate
All the endangered language research I’ve been doing seeped its way into the rough draft of my memoir. Below is a scene in which I encounter two darker-skinned boys at the Greek Consulate in New York City. From the looks of them, I gather that they must be Albanians. As I’m dealing with my own [...]

Published on April 16, 2012 03:00
April 15, 2012
On the Bro’d: A Parody of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road
The only bros for me are the mad awesome ones, the ones who are mad to chug, mad to party, mad to bone, mad to get hammered, desirous of all the chicks at Buffalo Wild Wings, the ones who never turn down a Natty Light, but chug, chug, chug like f*cking awesome players exploding [...]

Published on April 15, 2012 03:00
April 13, 2012
Clip: Light of the World
I expanded a post that started out here on this blog, and it’s up on Burnside now! It’s about the first Greek Easter I spent in New York…. I think there’s probably a law against carrying an open flame in the subway. I’m not sure. But it’s a pretty safe bet. This turns Easter [...]

Published on April 13, 2012 03:00
April 11, 2012
Writing Wednesday: The Art of Discovering What You Believe
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe. — Gustave Flaubert I love this quote on so many levels. As I struggle with writing my book(s), I realize that sometimes you have to write a whole lot in order to figure out what it is you're really trying to say, because [...]

Published on April 11, 2012 03:00
April 9, 2012
Bravo for Writing a Greek-American Memoir
On my lunch break one afternoon I met a man from Greece at a coffee shop. He had been born in Greece, but currently resides in New York. He didn't have the thick Greek accent that would've indicated a recent move, and yet like so many Greek people I've met, he was still very much [...]

Published on April 09, 2012 03:00
April 7, 2012
Clip: Separation Sunday
"Father, can I tell your congregation how a resurrection really feels?" Sin and salvation. Death and resurrection. Hoodrats and comeback kids. Parties and confession booths. The Hold Steady's Separation Sunday: indie rock's Easter music. Filed under: Clips, Faith Tagged: Burnside Writers Collective, clip, Easter, Hold Steady, holiday

Published on April 07, 2012 03:00
April 6, 2012
Clip: Paintings of the Crucifixion
In light of Good Friday, I'm reposting "Paintings of the Crucifixion," originally published on Burnside last year. A couple years ago there was an exhibit called Spanish Painting from El Greco to Picasso: Time, Truth, and History at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. The exhibit paired old masters with [...]

Published on April 06, 2012 03:00
April 4, 2012
Writing Wednesday: Punctuate Your Point with Punctuation
I've heard a lot of strange comments in my writing workshops. Someone once told me they thought from my writing that I wished I was a boy. Someone else questioned why I write more about Greek identity than Swedish identity. I expect all sorts of reactions to the content of my essays and that I'll [...]

Published on April 04, 2012 03:00
April 2, 2012
Huckleberry Finn Grows Up to Be Dean Moriarty
Flavorwire recently had a fun post on kid literary characters and their grown-up counterparts. They said that Huckleberry Finn would grow up to be Dean Moriarty, the character based on Neal Cassady in On the Road: Huckleberry Finn and Dean Moriarty Mark Twain's original American boy vagabond in search of adventure would inevitably grow [...]

Published on April 02, 2012 03:00
March 29, 2012
On the Road Trailer
In case for some reason you haven't seen the trailer for Walter Salles' On the Road, screenplay by Jose Rivera, here it is. It will star Sam Riley as Sal Paradise, Garrett Hedlund as Dean Moriarty, Kristen Stewart as Marylou, Kirsten Dunst as Camille, Tom Sturridge as Carlo Marx, Viggo Mortensen as Old Bull [...]

Published on March 29, 2012 03:00