Stop Smiling is my favorite magazine (it’s Jack Shafer‘s, too). I was lucky enough to do a bitchin’ internship there in the summer of 2006 and have been writing periodically for its Web site since. Below are links to some of the stuff I’ve published there, all in a neat little list.
BOOK STUFF

–Interview: Deb Olin Unferth
–review: 145 Stories in a Small Box by Dave Eggers, Deb Olin Unferth, and Sarah Manguso (McSweeney’s)
–review: The Two Kinds of Decay by Sarah Manguso (FSG)
MUSIC STUFF

–Live report: Personal Fest 2007 in Buenos Aires (feat. Snoop Dogg, Chris Cornell, CocoRosie, B Real, Kid Koala, and more — see better photos here)
–CD review: The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn by CocoRosie (Touch and Go)

–Live report: Touch and Go Records 25th Anniversary Party in Chicago (feat. Shellac, !!!, The Ex, CocoRosie, Calexico, and more)

–Live report: Art Brut in Chicago

–Live report: Slim Cessna’s Auto Club in Chicago

–Live report: Liars in Chicago
IN THE WORKS…
–Book review: Vacation by Deb Olin Unferth (McSweeney’s)
–Interview: Natasha Wimmer, translator of Roberto Bolaño‘s The Savage Detectives and 2666, among many other works.

Very nice. We are subscribers and never feel the need to throw away any edition (photography issue from a while back was a big fav). Why don’t you come back to Chicago to intern once more? I’m going bowling with Gabe Holcombe and Dutch girls on Friday.