Discover the poster featuring Miley Cyrus for “LOL-Laughing Out Loud”
today!
US release date: May 4th in select theaters
And here goes, as a bonus, the German version of the movie trailer (as it has -a bit of- footage that does not appear in the US version)
http://www.bsckids.com/2012/04/miley-cyrus-lol-german-trailer/
Groupe Professionnel Francophone
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JEUDI - 29 mars 2012 - De 17h30 à 20h00
THURSDAY – MARCH 29, 2012 – FROM 5:30 TILL 8PM
Renaissance Chicago Hotel
Great Street Restaurant
1 W. Wacker
(au coin de/corner of State et Wacker)
$6 membres ; $12 non-membres
Cocktails, vins et bières de $3 à $7 !
Mixed drinks, wine and beer from $3 to $7
INTERVENANTE
SPECIAL GUEST
Delphine PONTVIEUX, Entrepreneuse, Artiste
Depuis son arrivée à Chicago en 1998, Delphine Pontvieux a laissé carte blanche à son esprit créateur.
Elle est l’auteur du thriller politique “ETA-Estimated of Arrest”,
fondatrice de la maison d’édition Miss Nyet Publishing,
journaliste freelance pour France-Amérique et Plongeur magazine,
créatrice de bijoux fantaisie “Points d’Ancrage” et actrice.
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COPIES OF HER NOVEL WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR SALE, ALONG WITH PINTXATU (BASQUE COOKBOOK WITH CD COMPILATION) AND SAMPLES OF HER LATEST CREATIONS, THE ‘ANCHOR BRACELET’ JEWELRY LINE.
If you have never attended this event, this may be your last chance to partake in it so you can say “I, too, am a supporter of Nelson Algren’s talent!”
Featuring Delphine Pontvieux who, for the past couple of years, read excerpts from novels and letters from French writer and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, who was Nelson Algren’s passionate love. Signed copies of her novel “ETA-estimated Time of Arrest” will be sold on location.
Saturday, March 24
8 PM
at the Wicker Park Arts Center, 2215 W. North Avenue in Chicago.
The party celebrates the novelist and essayist who captured the reality of urban America with a cool eye and a compassionate heart, as seen in such masterpieces as The Man with the Golden Arm, Neon Wilderness and Chicago: City on the Make.
The party features a rich, eclectic and one-of-a-kind blend of presentations, poetry, music and performance, as well as Algren tributes and commentary.
From Philadelphia comes award-winning writer/photographer Linh Dinh, while dissident psychologist and author Bruce Levine joins us from Cincinnati and scholar Mike Jones treks in from Connecticut to discuss Algren’s continuing relevance. On the music front, legendary boogie-woogie pianist Erwin Helfer graces our stage once again, as do folksinger Bucky Halker and singer/songwriter Kristin Lems. Guitarist John Garvey backs up Warren Leming in a reading from City on the Make, while photographer Ron Seymour displays rarely seen Algren pictures. The poetry contingent includes Charlie Newman, Steve Schroeder, Wayne Allen Jones and Bob Katzman, proprietor of Skokie’s Magazine Museum. Musician and critic Richard Wyszynski talks about the Chicago of Algren and his buddy Studs Terkel, a founder of the Algren Committee. Mark Twain will be channeled by actor Richard Henzel, linking Algren to his American literary roots. Simone de Beauvoir, the love of Algren’s life, will be present via a spirited reading of her work by novelist Delphine Pontvieux.
The event also honors community members who display a “conscience in touch with humanity,” while flying under the media radar. This year’s recipients of the coveted Nelson Algren Committee Award are veteran scholar/activist Elliot Zashin and historical researcher and re-enactor extraordinaire Paul Durica.
Admission is $10 at the door, $7 for seniors and students with ID. Drink tickets are available to those wishing to toast Algren; complimentary snacks, related books and merchandise, and a door prize drawing add to the fun. Committee members Warren Leming and Hugh Iglarsh attempt to MC the madness, ably assisted by fellow members Nina Gaspich, Charlie Newman and Kurt Jacobsen.
We note with sadness that this is the swansong for the Algren Birthday Party at the Wicker Park Arts Center, as the historic St. Paul’s Church has been sold out from under the Near Northwest Arts Council (NNWAC), which operates the center. It represents another loss of precious public space in a neighborhood struggling to retain its artistic soul. We are grateful for the longtime support of NNWAC Director Laura Weathered and of WPB, the Special Service Area for the Wicker Park and Bucktown neighborhoods.
The night ends with a rousing “Happy Birthday” sung to Algren, who entered the world in 1909 and departed from it in 1981, leaving behind a singular body of work and an enduring influence on succeeding generations. When the Committee started, not long after Algren’s death, his books were mostly out of print and his presence almost unmarked in the city he made his life’s work. Now Algren is commemorated with a fountain and plaque, and he’s been inducted into the inaugural class of the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame. But none of his titles been included in the city’s “One Book, One Chicago” program, and he remains in a limbo of partial and grudging acceptance even in his hometown. The Committee’s work goes on.
In a world connected by YouTube, iTunes and Facebook, Lola (Cyrus) and her friends navigate the peer pressures of high school romance and friendship while dodging their sometimes overbearing and confused parents. When Lola’s mom, Anne (Moore), “accidentally” reads her teenage daughter’s racy journal, she realizes just how wide their communication gap has grown. Through hilarious and heartfelt moments between mother and daughter, LOL is a fresh coming-of-age story for modern times.
Read more about the movie and the cast at : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1592873/
http://www.missnyet.com/catalog.htm
While it may seem odd at first to promote an author that is not published by Miss Nyet, we are all about embracing talent, especially when it relates to Chicago authors. This is why we would like to introduce the latest work of Jason Fisk, a hyperfiction project titled ”Salt Creek Anthology”
Besides, the connection is not far-fetched, since Jason Fisk’s work has been released by CCLAP Publishing (Chicago Center for Literature and Photography), a prolific Chicago press that released 2 anthologies featuring short stories by Delphine Pontvieux back in 2011, “Amsterdamned if you do” and “American Wasteland”
You can dowload both books (pay as you wish) here: http://cclapcenter.com/amsterdamned and http://www.cclapcenter.com/wasteland
Jason Fisk’s “Salt Creek Anthology” was written in an experimental manner. It is a collection of flash fiction (about 70+ stories of less that 1,000 words each). All of the stories are able to stand on their own as self contained stories, and theoretically, they can be read in any order. Fisk divided the project up into four threads of approximately 20 stories apiece. Each thread followed a neighbor, and what was happening in that house at that time.
For the second stop of his blog tour, Jason Fisk shares with us what inspired him to write this book:
City Mouse, Suburban Mouse
By Jason Fisk
Yes, Edgar Lee Master’s, Spoon River Anthology inspired Salt Creek Anthology. I know Spoon River Anthology is old, as a matter of fact, it came out in 1915, but I absolutely loved it when I first read it. It’s a collection of epitaphs (in the form of poems) from a small town. The more time you spend with these poems, the more you see the interconnectedness of the townspeople’s lives. You see the drama, affairs, death, sorrow, lost love, and much more.
From what I’ve read, Spoon River Anthology challenged the preconceived notions people held about small towns. Before Spoon River Anthology, people thought of these small towns as sleepy places where nothing exciting happened, but after they read the collection, their view changed. They began to realize that as much was happening in a small town as was anywhere elsewhere. Just stir in people and you have interesting human drama.
Originally, I had intended for Salt Creek Anthology to do the same thing, only to challenge the preconceived notion that nothing really happened in the suburbs. After moving to Chicago in 1992, I became aware of this pervasive idea that the city was superior to the suburbs, especially when it came to the arts and culture scene. The idea seemed to be prevalent in conversations I’d had with artists, writers, and musicians; If you were an artist of any type, and you were from the suburbs of Chicago, you did everything you could to latch onto Chicago; you referred to yourself as being “Chicago based,” or from the “Chicago-land area.”
Don’t get me wrong, I love the city of Chicago; however, I moved to suburbia when my wife and I had kids. I just got sick of driving around the block twelve times looking for a parking space with a screaming baby in the back seat. Add to that the cost of having a baby, plus the city being so damn expensive, and guess what? …I’m moving to the suburbs.
I now have a small house on a corner lot with a fenced in backyard, and two parks within walking distance: Paradise, right? No, not quite. I’m a personable guy, right? I enjoyed meeting and talking with my neighbors, but, boy oh boy, was I surprised at the dysfunction and drama that seemed to be buried just below the surface of my little utopian neighborhood – buried right next door and across the street. That’s where Salt Creek Anthology came from. I used my neighborhood as inspiration, sprinkled a little imagination in there, and came up with Salt Creek Anthology.
Click here to order your copy (available in digital version and collector hardcover) http://www.cclapcenter.com/saltcreek/
We invite you to travel along with Jason Fisk on his next blog tour stop tomorrow, which will be hosted by Katherine Scott Nelson at www.katherinescottnelson.com
Save the date!
When: Saturday, March 3rd from 10:30 am till 3pm
Where: Alliance Francaise de Chicago 54 W. Chicago avenue
Price: Free admission. An event tailored both for adults (French book sale, readings and meet and greets by Francophone authors who live in Chicago) and children (cartoon contest, storytelling) and free coffee and croissants will be served!
In French: La foire prend place dans le cadre du mois de la francophonie. Y participeront des auteurs francophones résidant a Chicago, dont Delphine Pontvieux, auteur du livre “ETA-Estimated Time of Arrest,” qui fera lecture d’un extrait de son livre, suivi d’une séance de vente/dédicace de 13 a 14 heures dans les locaux de l’Alliance française. Suivra une table ronde sur le thème du ”Citoyen Francophone” à laquelle sont conviés les professeurs des grandes universités du Midwest.
Well, the first Chicago book expo is over, and I must say it was a worthwhile event. Congratulations to the organization crew for their kindness and efforts in making this book fair one that is most certain to return next year. Here is a little report on how it went, along with photos of the event.
Saturday. (10am-6pm)
The day was cold and very windy. The luck (or lack thereof) of the draw was such that we (me and my fellow author/publisher and friend Andre Frieden from Avendia Publishing, along with a good number of Chicago presses and local fiction authors) ended up setting shop in the basement of the Uptown Broadway Building -across the former Borders store instead of within the same building-, which is rumored to be a former speakeasy.
At least, the dark, ominous setting was quite appropriate for thriller writers!
The good news is, I found a new mascot there. How could I describe it? It’s like a lucky charm, only slightly bigger than a rabbit’s foot. Here it is, below.
Sunday (12pm-6pm)
What a difference a new locale makes! Today, we are all sharing the space within the former Borders bookstore. It is well lit, warm and cosy! Great attendance throughout the day, which made for good sales and great conversations with the public. Channel 2 (CBS local news) was also in attendance and filmed my stand (along with my 2010 Oscar award from the French community, which the cameraman really liked!). CCLAP Publishing was also in attendance at the book expo, selling both anthologies “Amsterdamned if you do” and “American Wasteland”, for which I have contributed short stories.
At 3 PM, Andre Frieden, Libby Fisher Hellman and I took part in a reading of excerpts of our respective novels, followed by a 15-minute Q&A about thrillers. The photo below shows Andre, Libby and I after the reading.
The weekend event wrapped up at 6 pm.
I want to thank the Chicago public for braving the weather to come out and support their local writing community. This is probably the first time that so many local authors and small presses were together at the same time under the same roof, and that was an impressive feat. I also got the chance to meet fantastic people there, in addition to seeing old friends again as well as members of the Chicago Writing Association. Looking forward to next year!
Delphine
List of the presses in attendance at the first BOOK EXPO
more news about the book expo this week end…
In my stories, I write about war, terrorism and violence.
I condemn terrorism because while I believe there are goals and aspirations, whether they be of the political or ideological kind, that may be worth fighting for, they can never justify the slaughter of innocent people.
I deplore violence in all its forms, especially when gratuitous.
And while I am against war for ethical reasons, I respect the soldiers who fight them: soldiers want peace and freedom as much as everyone else. The difference between us and them is, they put their lives on the line so that the majority of us don’t have to.
I was lucky enough that I never had to live through a war. Being born in France, my people have fought many of them.
My grandfather, on my dad’s side, was drafted during World War II. He found himself alone in front of a German tank in northeastern France back in 1941. With only a hand gun left for protection, he was made prisoner and was sent to a work camp until the liberation by the Allied forces in 1945.
My dad’s older brother fought in Algeria, because the war was going on while he was doing his military service (which, until recently, was mandatory for all able Frenchmen).
My grandmother on my mother’s side lived in Normandy during the German occupation. She managed to cross the line of demarcation between Nazi occupied France and freedom alone at 18, by hiding under bales of hay in the back of a tractor. With only a small suitcase in hand, her goal was to meet my grandfather in Marseille so they could get married before he was sent to fight.
My point is, we are all related with family and friends who have fought wars, lived through wars, escaped from them, or fell on the battlefield. When we talk about the war, any war, we often look at it in the macro sense of the term. Yet, what we tend to oversee, is that out of a battalion of a thousand soldiers fighting as one, each person is an individual, with their own distinct lives and they have a thousand different stories to tell.
Do you want to share YOUR story ?
This Veterans Day weekend, Indie Book Collective’s Blog Tour de Troops is giving back to the men and women who safeguard our freedom.
The choice is yours! It could be a reaction to what you just read, a word of thank you or gratitude to the troops who are far away from home, a story you would like to share…
Be sure to include the following information in your post:
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If you’d like to donate money toward those Kindles for our soldiers, simply use Paypal and ibcprograms@gmail.com as the address to send money to. Please note on your payment that it’s a Troops donation.
Please visit and THANK Vidster Vidocq on his blog for the review he wrote of “ETA-Estimated Time of Arrest” specially for Tour de troops : http://www.defrostingcoldcases.com/book-reviews/estimated-time-of-arrest-by-delphine-pontvieux
And if you would like to read more about me and my other works, check out http://www.missnyet.com/bio.htm
I thank you for your visit and look forward to reading/answering your posts!
I hope you enjoyed Alison DeLuca’s page! http://alisondeluca.blogspot.com/ When you’re done with mine, I invite you to hop onto the next author’s blog, Brian Jeffreys at http://brianjeffreys.blogspot.com/
“The entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.” John Andrew Holmes. “Service to others is the rent you pay for living on this planet.” Marian Wright Edelman. ’NUFF SAID. Thank you all, and have a beautiful weekend,
Delphine
Why, giving one away to the men and women who have protected this country!
Join the indie book collective on Veteran’s Day Weekend. Blog hop to dozens of authors sites where each is giving away not only an eBook to every commenter, but another one to a soldier! Plus extra prizes, as in a Kindle giveaway.
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