Welcome 2006: SMITH magazine arrives
January 6th, 2006 | Published in Out Loud
Folks, I am pleased to announce the birth of a new magazine, SMITH, for your online reading pleasure. I have been working on this, among other projects, for fits and starts across several years now, and it’s nice to see the effort bear some fruit.
SMITH magazine is about exploring the personal stories that inform our collective cultural narrative. Everything from bloggers to the almost famous (both of which often overlap), from lotto winners to local characters. It’s about framing our personal stories and perspectives so that they resonate in a larger context. It’s about being a uniter, not a divider. :)
Check some of these stories out:
Personal Investigation: So I Married a Mortician
Back Home with Paul Reickhoff (an Iraq War vet and veteran activist)
15 Minutes: Mario Puzo, the Dalai Lama, and Mick Jagger
Close Encounter: Got Calf?
SMITH is also going to be a lot of fun. We’re starting with an online Web zine, which is built on Wordpress, and will be moving into print soon. A lot of what we do requires reader feedback, and not lame polls either, but features that are wholly comprised of readers’ stories. So drop on by when you have some time, and share a tasty anecdote with us. We will definitely publish it. We’re that nuts.
I’m also hoping to make the blog a public record of much of our behind-the-scenes efforts. Usually, magazines are very secretive about their plans. Not us. We’re going to put our experiences up online as much as we can. Hopefully, we can add something interesting to the conversation.
Here’s a few of Larry’s anecdotes on meeting with many of NY’s media elite: Graydon Carter (Vanity Fair), Doug Peabody (Health, Saveur, George), and Isolde Motley (Time). Larry’s doing press for SMITH this week (today is National Smith Day, you know), and I think he’s going to have some fun stories to share.
There’s a lot more to come—another magazine and hopefully a better way of doing business—so I hope you’ll follow along, especially if you’ve only stumbled onto this post. We’re going to have a big year.