Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
Description
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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About the Author
Rachel Fershleiser is SMITH's memoir editor and has written for the Village Voice, the New York Press, Print, and the National Post. Rachel lives in New York City.
Reviews
"Six-word review: Buy it, keep it in bathroom."--Philadelphia Magazine
"A fabulously appealing exercise both for writers and for readers."--Daily Telegraph (London)
"Perfect for the American attention span...Will thrill minimalists and inspire maximalists."--Vanity Fair
"Smith seems to have struck a chord in the current zeitgeist, unleashing a torrent of self-expression not unlike the one launched by Frank Warren when he began inviting people to write their secrets on the back of postcards."--Toronto Star
"Compulsive reading...as insightful as any 300+ page biography."--Publishers Weekly
"A perfect distraction and inspiration, and a collection that begs to be shared."--Denver Post
"The pithiest of life stories."--O magazine
"In six words: Gimmicks should always be this fun."--Style.com
"These tiny windows into people's lives are at once addictive and illuminating, challenging and accessible."--Blackbook
"The brilliance is in the brevity."--New York Post
"Irresistibly clever."--Chicago Tribune
