Comments on: Stop Smiling’s 2nd Annual 20 Interviews Issue

By: Bojidar Dobrilovic

Bojidar Dobrilovic — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:04:09 +0000

Aaron,
Thanks…I will see if I can special order it somehow then…just briefly though…is the paper stock heavy finish( matte or glossy), binding (saddle stitch or perfect bound)
…and what did Dave Tompkins write about in the latest issue?

Thanks
Bojidar

By: AaronM

AaronM — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:46:27 +0000

Bojidar,
Yeah, I do. I’m a subscriber.
I’ve never actually seen it on newsstands, it’s a shame.
Thanks for your comment!

By: Bojidar Dobrilovic

Bojidar Dobrilovic — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:02:19 +0000

hey Aaron,

I am assuming you live in Ottawa.

I was looking for it at MAGS and FAGS on ELGIN ST. and they don’t have it…I also looked at other independent stores in the city, main library on Metcalfe …but still,no paper version.Do you happen to have a printed copy with you?

I hope to hear more from you and thanks for bringing it to our attention.

Sincerely,
Bojidar Dobrilovic

By: AaronM

AaronM — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:24:59 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Gary. Yeah, I need to dig into their back issues a bit.
If SS were given a bit more room to stretch out some of the features, it could even better.
We’ll have to wait and see. The upcoming Jazz issue looks great.

By: gary mcmahon

gary mcmahon — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:56:05 +0000

I agree about Nigella, whose mainstream lay-it-on-thick sensual presentation of food TV has been a ridiculous joke in Britain for some years now.

But Stop Smiling is a breath of fresh air, isn’t it just? A breath of fresh air coming out of Chicago that is such a blast it blows a breeze clear across the Atlantic to my little island.
The Hunter Thompson/ death of independent publishing issue…the Kurt Vonnegut issue…the Chinatown issue… The classy format and wonderful writing is challenging my pessimism about the fate of magazine publishing with every issue.

If Stop Smiling can find space for longer features, of the kind that dropped out of periodicals round about the time that Rolling Stone magazine bowed down to the shorter attention span of the post-hip generation, then we are in for something pretty special in the years ahead.
Remember the potential of New Journalism? It hasn’t been tapped for a generation, but Stop Smiling could be on to something, see, yeah, something big, that’s right, something big in Chicago.