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'''''Stop Smiling''''' was an arts and culture [[magazine]] founded by J. C. Gabel in the [[Chicago]] suburb of [[Darien, Illinois|Darien]], [[Illinois]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Kurt Vonnegut|title=Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mkxkw_Oehm8C&pg=PT145|accessdate=9 August 2016|date=27 December 2011|publisher=Melville House|isbn=978-1-61219-091-4|page=145}}</ref> He started the magazine at age 19 in 1995.<ref>{{cite news|author=David Lepeska|title=Jazz Age magazine The Chicagoan returns as media experiment|url=http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/music/jazz-age-magazine-the-chicagoan-returns-as-media-experiment#page2|accessdate=24 November 2016|work=The National|date=19 May 2012}}</ref> The magazine was published on a bimonthly basis.<ref name=coll>{{cite news|title=The magazine for high-minded lowlifes: Stop Smiling Magazine|url=http://www.colourlovers.com/web/trends/websites/5047/The_magazine_for_high-minded_lowlifes_::_Stop_Smiling_Magazine|accessdate=9 August 2016|work=Colour Lovers|date=February 2008}}</ref> The headquarters was in both Chicago and New York.<ref name="coll"/> 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]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Stop Smiling Books|url=http://stopsmiling-books.com/about.php|accessdate=9 August 2016}}</ref><br />
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''Stop Smiling'' runs a storefront event space in [[Wicker Park, Chicago]]. Readings and Q&As are regularly broadcast on [[Chicago Public Radio]].<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://www.stopsmilingonline.com/ Official website]<br />
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