Stop Smiling was an arts and culture magazine founded in Chicago in the mid-1990s. Each issue followed a theme and consisted of feature-length interviews, essays and oral histories. With a focus on preservation, Stop Smiling published some of the last in-depth conversations with Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Altman, Lee Hazlewood and George Plimpton. The company ended the magazine in 2009 and became an independently-owned imprint of Melville House Publishing. (Wikipedia)
INTERVIEWS
Humorist and best-selling author DAVID SEDARIS Author GORE VIDAL Author CLIVE JAMES Persepolis creator MARJANE SATRAPI Author ISABEL FONSECA Filmmaker ALEX COX Cinematographer DION BEEBE
ESSAYS
JOE ESZTERHAS, screenwriter of Basic Instinct and Showgirls, on the Hungarian Madmen of Hollywood PANTHEA LEE on journalists in China JONATHAN ROSENBAUM on expat filmmakers KATE ZAMBRENO on F. Scott + Zelda Fitzgerald MICHAEL A. GONZALES on Chester Himes
EXCERPT
Midday with Buñuel by CLAUDIO ISAAC
FOOD
An Immigrant's Tale: The History of the Pizza Pie
PHOTO ESSAY
China journal by IAN ALLEN
MATCH POINTS
Stories from screen legend NORMAN LLOYD
RECORD
The first 500 copies of the Expatriate Issue include a limited-edition CD from Light in the Attic, featuring tracks from all six of the albums in their Jamaica to Toronto series
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