Not Quite What I Was Planning, Revised and Expanded Deluxe Edition: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
Larry Smith [Editor]; Rachel Fershleiser [Editor];
Language: English
Published by Harper, 2008
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- Title
- Not Quite What I Was Planning, Revised and Expanded Deluxe Edition: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
- Author
- Larry Smith [Editor]; Rachel Fershleiser [Editor];
- Publisher
- Harper
- Publication year
- 2008
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0061713716
- ISBN 13
- 9780061713712
- Item weight
- 10 ounces
- Dimensions
- 5x0x7
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 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.
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Review
"The brilliance is in the brevity." -- New York Post
"The pithiest of life stories." -- O magazine
"You could spend a lifetime brainstorming." -- The New Yorker
"Irresistibly clever." -- Chicago Tribune
The brilliance is in the brevity. --New York Post
Irresistibly clever. --Chicago Tribune
The pithiest of life stories. --O magazine
"You could spend a lifetime brainstorming."--The New Yorker
"Six-word review: Buy it, keep it in bathroom."--Philadelphia Magazine
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