Jon M Smith

  • Professor of Instruction at English, College of Liberal Arts

Scholarly and Creative Works

2023

  • Smith, J. M., & Henderson, S. (2023). Fais-les Pleurer (French translation of Make Them Cry). Paris, France: Belfond Noir. Retrieved from https://www.harpercollins.com/products/make-them-cry-smith-hendersonjon-marc-smith?variant=32126227742754
  • Kapurch, K., & Smith, J. M. (2023). Blackbird: How Black Musicians Sang the Beatles into Being-- and Sang Back to Them Ever After. Penn State University Press.

2022

  • Kapurch, K., Smith, J. M., & Womack, K. (2022, October 19). Rising from the Ashes: Billy Preston’s Victory. Los Angeles Sentinel.

2020

  • Kapurch, K., & Smith, J. M. (2020). “Blackbird Fly: Paul McCartney’s Legend, Billy Preston’s Gospel, and Lead Belly’s Blues.” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, 22, 5–30.
  • Smith, J. M., & Henderson, S. (2020). Make Them Cry. New York: Ecco. Retrieved from https://www.harpercollins.com/products/make-them-cry-smith-hendersonjon-marc-smith?variant=32126227742754
  • Make Them Cry. Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB). 2020.
    • Reviewed by: Ivy Pochada.
  • Smith, J. M., & Henderson, S. (2020, September 24). “TEN AMERICAN MASTERPIECES THAT ARE ACTUALLY CRIME FICTION.” CrimeReads. Retrieved from https://crimereads.com/ten-american-masterpieces-that-are-actually-crime-fiction/
  • Make Them Cry. "30 Books That Should Be On Your Radar: September 2020". Writer's Bone. September 24, 2020.
  • Smith, J. M., & Henderson, S. (2020, September 21). “Finding the Beginning.” Rogue Women Writers. Retrieved from https://www.roguewomenwriters.com/2020/09/smith-henderson-and-jon-marc-smith-go.html
  • Make Them Cry. "How two Texas drinking buddies wound up with one crackling cartel thriller". Los Angeles Times. September 15, 2020.
    • Reviewed by: Tod Goldberg.
  • Make Them Cry. "12 BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ IN SEPTEMBER". CrimeReads. September 1, 2020.
  • Make Them Cry. Booklist. August 2020.
  • Make Them Cry. Starred Review. Publishers Weekly. July 14, 2020.
  • Make Them Cry. "THE MOST ANTICIPATED CRIME BOOKS OF 2020: SUMMER READING EDITION". CrimeReads. July 14, 2020.
  • Make Them Cry. "Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2020, Part 2". Literary Hub. July 14, 2020.
  • Smith, J. M., & Henderson, S. (2020, July 13). “WHAT DOES IT TAKE FOR TWO PEOPLE TO ACTUALLY WRITE A NOVEL TOGETHER?” CrimeReads. Retrieved from https://crimereads.com/what-does-it-take-for-two-people-to-actually-write-a-novel-together/
  • Make Them Cry. Starred Review. Kirkus Reviews. June 3, 2020.
  • Make Them Cry. "Six Rising Stars". Library Journal. March 4, 2020.

2019

  • Kapurch, K., & Smith, J. M. (2019). “A Fear So Real: Film Noir’s Fallen Man in Bruce Springsteen’s DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN and the David Lynch Oeuvre.” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory, 21, 89–108.

2018

  • Kapurch, K., & Smith, J. M. (2018). “Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, and Something Blue: The Make-Do Girl of CINDERELLA (2015).” In M. C. Kearney & M. Blue (Eds.), Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations of Girls’ Media Culture, Volume 2 (Vol. 2, pp. 67–83). Peter Lang.

2016

  • Kapurch, K., & Smith, J. M. (2016). “Blackbird Singing: Paul McCartney’s Romance of Racial Harmony and Post-racial America.” In New Critical Perspectives on the Beatles: Things We Said Today. (pp. 51–74). UK: Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved from http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057%2F978-1-137-57013-0_4

2009

  • Smith, J. M. (2009). “Sentence Outlines.” In L. Jacobus (Ed.), Resources for Teaching: A World of Ideas: Essential Readings for College Writers. Boston, US: Bedford/St. Martins.

2006

  • Smith, J. M. (2006, January). Father Gives All to Build Home for His Family. San Francisco Chronicle.

2005

  • Smith, J. M. (2005, July). “Dance with the One.” Big Tex(t) Magazine. US.

2004

  • Smith, J. M. (2004, January). “Useful Fictions: Booze, Gas Huffing, Emerson, and Khakheperresneb.” Kitchen Sink Magazine, 3(1).