SMITH In the News
Press for Our Six-Word Memoir Book, Not Quite What I Was Planning
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “fell in love” with our forthcoming six-word memoir book.
Recent Press for Smith Magazine
The NY Post’s Page Six picks up SMITH’s Iraqi Slideshow photo essay, which is then mentioned on The Colbert Report. Larry Smith breaks down the chain of events here.
The Washington Post’s Express: A feature story from free paper of the Washington Post on the success of the six-word memoir book and the founding and future of SMITH Magazine.
The Publishing Spot says, “SMITH Magazine has built a lean, mean literary magazine on the web.”
Dave Eggers, at a Writing the Memoir workshop in Ann Arbor, Michigan, calls SMITH, “essential memoir reading.”
USA Today wonders if our Geek T-shirt photo essay is “the start of a long-overdue documentation of geek T-shirt couture.”
Recent Interviews With Founder & Editor Larry Smith
The Gothamist: “Larry Smith has parlayed his extensive magazine experience (Yahoo! Internet Life, P.O.V., ESPN, Might) to create the online magazine that’s not only named after him, it represents his vision for the future of populist storytelling: SMITH.”
StyleStation: “Traversing through the tangled web of media giants, Editor+Publisher & Entrepreneur Larry Smith added a page or two to his own story.”
The New York Times: “Larry Smith knows he is treading a fine marital line. Mr. Smith, 37, is the editor of Smith, an online magazine he founded, and he loves to work in bed at all hours—midafternoon, 2 a.m. if insomnia strikes, then again in the morning.”
American Public Media’s national Weekend America program does a segment on how and why SMITH’s six-word memoir contest became an online sensation.
The Penn Gazette: “In some ways [SMITH] resembles a gigantic cocktail party to which everyone is invited to come, listen, and contribute their own personal stories,” writes Susan Frith in Web, Take Two, a story on University of Pennsylvania alumni involved in Web 2.0 businesses, including SMITH’s Larry Smith, Tim Barkow, Rachel Fershleiser, and Alex Koppelman.
Praise for the Webcomic a.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge.
Wired.com: “A sterling example of comics with a social conscience.”
Rolling Stone: “Stunning.”
USA Today’s PopCandy: “Accessible, informative and beautifully drawn.”
Boing Boing: “An excellent way to present the personal stories of people affected by the natural disaster.”
Heeb Magazine: “Sets the bar high for the genre of Katrina writings.”
Stories About Smith’s Webcomic Sensation, Shooting War
For a longer list of coverage, see the Shooting War press page.
Check out Shooting War: The Book, published in fall, 2007.
New York magazine’s esteemed Approval Matrix declares Shooting War:
“Brilliant & Lowbrow”
Rolling Stone: “[A] scary-smart take on what the horrors of the future may hold.”
Publisher’s Weekly’s Calvin Reid:
“A biting satire on the Iraq war that began as a Web comic and was acquired for print during this year’s San Diego Comic-con.”
USA Today’s Tech_Space’s Angela Gunn:
“If you’ve ever gotten in on something important at the very beginning, you understand what’s in store for you — and even seven chapters in, I think this is just the beginning for this project and this creative team. Expect greatness.”
Baltimore Sun:
“Shooting War is nothing less than a shot across the bow of the blog generation.”
Wired’s Bruce Sterling:
“One doesn’t often see genuinely left-wing radical comix with a sci-fi tinge.”
Entertainment Weekly’s Popwatch:
“The anger, the artistry, and the very local detail make this a must-read. What’s more, the comic’s ‘trailer’ opens up a completely new way to tell stories with still pictures. It’s an intense and bracing read, torn from the headlines of tomorrow.”
AlterNet:
“[A]n arresting web comic … [that] has already become a prescient commentary on the future of warring Iraqi factions, globalization and citizen journalism’s struggle against mainstream media.”
Dan Gilmor of the Center for Citizen Media calls Shooting War:
“A brilliant example of what could become a Web staple: graphic novels translated to a medium that is almost perfect for the genre. [I]t’s addictive.”
Smith Magazine Launch, 1.06.07
Cool Hunting: Now there’s a mag that’s unabashedly harnessing the infinite pool of online writing talent into one monthly publication. Features, anecdotes, free-form stories, SMITH Magazine sits on the pulse of today’s cultural narrative.
We’re all Smiths (The News & Observer, NC):
… You just have to have a Smith-like story or an interest in reading about, well, the Smiths, the Johnsons, the Joneses, the Williamses and everyone else out there in America. “Everybody has a story, and everybody should have a place to tell that story,” said magazine founder Larry Smith. …
Attention All Smiths, Today’s Your Day (Iowa City Press-Citizen)
… It also honors another Smith — Jedediah Smith — who was born Jan. 6, 1798, and became a well-known explorer and mountain man in the American West, according to Larry Smith, founder and editor-in-chief of Smith magazine in New York. … “A lot of people don’t know about National Smith Day,” Larry Smith said. …
Salon.com: “Salon contributor Larry Smith has launched a new online “blog-a-zine” titled—appropriately enough—SMITH. Its most arresting feature so far is the gallery of 16 images of “Beautiful Pregnant Women.” The first batch of photos, taken by Jennifer Maya Luz Pliego, are super-arty and gorgeous.”
Spidey Senses Blog (Ted Rheingold): “The web works very well for them. Long interviews, personal stories (both long and short), photo collections are accompanied by daily blog-like entries. Each piece allows for comments which are meant to tease the reader into becoming a participant and ideally tease their own story out of them.”
