Smiley in the News

Below are links to Sarah's recent media events, including newspaper, television and radio interviews, book reviews and features. More reviews and reader comments can be found here.

Military Spouse Magazine Sept/Oct 2007	Sarah Smiley tops list of "Who's Who of Military Spouses"
Navy Wife Talk Radio June 12, 2007	Link to archived interview here.
Panama City News Herald May 2, 2007	Armed Forces Day Relocation makes us closer because we only have each other.
Pensacola News Journal May 16, 2007	Military Wives Honored for Volunteering Efforts The perfect military wife can't be selected...she is created.
GOSPORT May 18, 2007	Navy League Honors Military Spouses of the Year The perfect military wife can't be selected....she is created.
CNN American Morning w/Soledad O'Brien October 25 & 27, 2006	Prescription Iraq Two-part live interview. TRANSCRIPT 1; TRANSCRIPT 2
Woman's Day October 5, 2006	Be Your Best You Featuring advice from Smiley about handling rejection with humor.
Herald Dispatch June 27, 2006	Blog : Review of Going Overboard Funny and very real. Exactly as I remember military wives...military spouses, for necessary reasons of survival are a separate culture.
WKRG News 5 June 19, 2006	Local Author May Have Created Sitcom The book is funny, and serious, and universal...you don't have to be military to read it. And Smiley's view of her world is clearly stated.
Chicago Tribune June 18, 2006	New in Paperback A columnist's view of life as a military wife.
Fox News March 19, 2006	Studio B w/Trace Gallagher Who is this model milmitary wife, and why am I supposed to be like her?
CBS The Early Show March 17, 2007	Military Wife's Writing Strikes Chord She's been criticized for revealing too much, speaking, for instance, about deployment demons such as infidelity.
NEWSWEEK January 9, 2006	Days of Our Lives A new generation of military wives--defying the unwritten rule that you don't whine about your husband's job--are sharing their deployment woes in books.
MarketWatch December 19, 2005	Commentary [Nightline's] segment on military wife-turned-author Sarah Smiley was well presented...
ABC's Nightline December 13, 2005	On the Homefront I'll say it and take the heat so everyone else can feel normal.
The Bob and Tom Radio Show December 12, 2005	Live Interview I knew you'd be this perky (Link to interview here)
CNN Sunday Morning December 11, 2005	Live Interview [Sarah is] really quite frank and honest about what it's like.
Eye on Books November 2005	Radio Interview It took my mother about two weeks to get over reading the book. (Link to interview)
The Virginian-Pilot, Beacon November 20, 2005	Writer Shares Learning Experiences with First Colonial Students The students [at First Colonial High School] had taken away Smiley's message of guts. Because that's what it takes [to be a writer].
Philadelphia City Paper November 17, 2005	Book Review, Wishin' and Hopin' Smiley's not afraid to question the tight-lipped culture she inhabits, not the government's decisions about Iraq.
MSNBC Live November 11, 2005	Live Interview Service members go and serve so we can stay behind and question the politics.
The Hartford Courant November 11, 2005	War-Tested Marriages There is always that underlying sense of how dangerous our spouse's job is. That he might not come home.
New York Times Magazine November 6, 2005	Confessions of a Military Wife, by Alex Witchel When it doesn't work out, it's like being excommunicated from the church. You're gone. (Link to article)
BookReporter.com November 2005	Book Review Going Overboard is [Smiley's] first book; hopefully there will be more to come.
The Florida Times-Union November 2, 2005	Loosing it and Going Overboard Laugh-out-loud humor and poignant honesty set this memoir apart. It takes a brave woman to toss her laundry out there for everyone in the country to see.
Soundings Newspaper November 2, 2005	Book Inspiration for Proposed TV Sitcom Sarah Smiley may no longer be able to write about how her two sons wear the UnderRoos on top of their clothing.
The Virginian-Pilot October 31, 2005	Navy Wife/Columnist Gives Funny, Frank Look at Deployment [Smiley] wants to lift what she says is still a taboo about expressing unhappiness with a military lifestyle, especially while so many members of the military are at war.
Pensacola News Journal October 25, 2005	Columnist Ready to Promote First Book [Smiley] has become the voice of a long-ignored minority--the homefront housewife.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer June 28, 2004	The Navy Wife Military wives are afraid to reach out because they fear they'll be labeled a failure.