Happy Greek Independence Day!
Find out about Agia Lavra, the church where the revolution began, in my Church Hopping column on Burnside Writers Collective.
And read my previous post on the history of March 25 being Greek Independence Day here.
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Friday Links: Best Indie Bookstores
22 NovHappy Friday! Flavorwire’s recently been doing an indie bookstore roundup, which has been fun to peruse. I thought I’d share those with you and also offer a few of my own picks, which are mainly Beat-related or New York City-bound.
Roundups
- Flavorwire’s 45 Great American Bookstores to Support This Holiday Season
- Flavorwire’s 25 More Great American Bookstores to Support This Holiday Season
- BBC’s America’s Best Indie Bookstores
Beat Bookstores
- Beat Book Shop (and on facebook) in Boulder, Colorado
- Beat Museum in San Francisco, California
- City Lights Booksellers & Publishers in San Francisco, California, is mentioned on some of the above lists but is worth repeating
New York City Bookstores
- La Casa Azul in Spanish Harlem in New York City
- Brazenhead Books, a secret bookstore on the Upper East Side in New York City
- The Corner Bookstore on the Upper East Side in New York City
- Bluestockings, a fair-trade, activist bookstore on the Lower East Side in New York City
- Mercer Street Books, a bookstore for “interesting, esoteric and weird books” in the Village in New York City
- The Astoria Bookshop, a new bookstore in Queens in New York City
What are the best indie bookstores in your neighborhood?
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Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” is now available as an ebook and paperback!
[2/12/14: edit made to this post to fix a spacing issue]Clip: Vox Poetica Published My Poem “In a Diner in America Circa 1956”
20 Nov
I’m thrilled to be published in vox poetica. The lit mag was founded in 2009 by Annmarie Lockhart, a resident of Bergen County, New Jersey — where I’m from!
The poem featured, “In a Diner in America Circa 1956,” came to me one day as I was walking on Park Avenue during my lunch break. I was thinking about Jack Kerouac stopping in a roadside cafe for a little nourishment as he traveled across the country, and the awkwardness and opportunities that abound when one travels on one’s own.
It’s a pastiche of Jack Kerouac’s interview on The Steve Allen Show, his narration of what may be the only true Beat film Pull My Daisy, and an amalgamation of information from his novels and letters as well as biographies.
You can read it here.
Happy Fourth of July!
4 Jul
Happy July 4th!
Here’s my post from last year, complete with fireworks photos!!
It’s Independence Day here in the US, but did you ever stop to consider that each country has its own unique independence story? (This is Greece’s independence day story.)
Not only that, in some way, every person has their own independence day story, their own coming-of-age story. The moment they realized they were independent, free, but also responsible for themselves.
What’s your independence story?
Yiasou!
Stephanie Nikolopoulos is a writer, editor, writing teacher, and speaker based in New York City.
She is the coauthor, with Paul Maher Jr., of "Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road.'"
You can email her at stephanie_701 {@} yahoo.com
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