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

by Larry Smith, Rachel Fershleiser
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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

Life distilled into six-word emotional revelations.

This collection touches the soul with its brevity and depth, captivating with its ability to convey entire lifetimes within six words. It's perfect for readers who appreciate the power of succinct storytelling and for those seeking inspiration for their own writing or teaching endeavors. Each memoir, from the whimsically humorous to the deeply poignant, showcases a wide spectrum of human experience that any reader can connect with.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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

by Larry Smith, Rachel Fershleiser
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ISBN: 9780061374050
Authors: Larry Smith, Rachel Fershleiser
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date of Publication: 2008-02-05
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Creative Nonfiction, Biographies & Memoirs
Related Topics: Memoir, Autobiography, Biography, Essays, Biography Memoir
Goodreads rating: 3.89
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Description

Deceptively simple and surprisingly addictive, Not Quite What I Was Planning is a thousand glimpses of humanity—six words at a time. When Ernest 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-size pieces. The original edition of Not Quite What I Was Planning spent six weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, and thanks to massive media attention—from NPR to The New Yorker—the six-word memoir concept spread to classrooms, dinner tables, churches, synagogues, and tens of thousands of blogs. This deluxe edition has been revised and expanded to include more than sixty never-before-seen memoirs. From authors Elizabeth Gilbert, Richard Ford, and Joyce Carol Oates to celebrities Stephen Colbert, Mario Batali, and Joan Rivers to ordinary folks around the world, everyone has a six-word story to tell.
 

Life distilled into six-word emotional revelations.

This collection touches the soul with its brevity and depth, captivating with its ability to convey entire lifetimes within six words. It's perfect for readers who appreciate the power of succinct storytelling and for those seeking inspiration for their own writing or teaching endeavors. Each memoir, from the whimsically humorous to the deeply poignant, showcases a wide spectrum of human experience that any reader can connect with.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.