Stop Smiling was an arts and culture magazine founded by J. C. Gabel in the Chicago suburb of Darien, Illinois.
[3] 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.
[4] Stop Smiling runs a storefront event space in Wicker Park, Chicago.