Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure

Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
by Larry Smith, Rachel Fershleiser

Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
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Author: Larry Smith, Rachel Fershleiser
Edition: Paperback
Published: 2008-02-01
ISBN: 0061374059
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: Harper Perennial

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Book Review: Six Word Stories
Summary: 5 Stars

The book was great; everything as described by Michael Smerconish. The work shows how much can be said in so few words. I am enjoying the book.

Summary of Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure

Deceptively simple and surprisingly addictive, Not Quite What I Was Planning is a thousand glimpses of humanity—six words at a time.

One Life. Six Words. What's Yours?

When Hemingway famously wrote, "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn," he proved that an entire story can be told using a half dozen words. When the online storytelling magazine SMITH asked readers to submit six-word memoirs, they proved a whole, real life can be told this way too. The results are fascinating, hilarious, shocking, and moving.

From small sagas of bittersweet romance ("Found true love, married someone else") to proud achievements and stinging regrets ("After Harvard, had baby with crackhead"), these terse true tales relate the diversity of human experience in tasty bite-sized pieces. From authors Jonathan Lethem and Richard Ford to comedians Stephen Colbert and Amy Sedaris, to ordinary folks around the world, everyone has a six-word story to tell.

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