Once it leaves your hands you’ll never see it again.”Ī’s Best of February: “In the bittersweet confessional style of PostSecret, hundreds (famous and otherwise) sum up their lives in less than half a haiku.” Also: Amazon’s Leah Weathersby inte rviews Rachel Fershleiser. If you plan to lend out your copy, start out with two. The Denver Post: “It’s a quick read that invites a slow reread…The SMITH website says they were aiming for ‘everything we believe storytelling can be: accessible, funny, profound, and addictive.’ They’ve fully achieved their goal.Not Quite What I Was Planning is a perfect distraction and inspiration, and a collection that begs to be shared. Slate: “Brief writing is thriving with the publication of Not Quite What I Was Planning,” writes Michael Agger, in The Great Uncluttering: the best books, articles, and Web sites for helping you organize your life. NY Post : “Movers and shakers are asked to sum up their feelings in very short order in Smith magazine’s new collection of Six-Word Memoirs on Love & Heartbreak.” ![]() Lee digs into the back story of SMITH Mag and the six-word project, challenges Times readers to write with their own six-word life stories-and the comments box explodes. The New York Times Online (City Room): Jennifer 8. Los Angeles Times:Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser pen an op-ed piece on how the six-word memoir project has inspired SMITH Mag’s vision of a storytelling world. These days digital eloquence is defined by pithiness.… In the book world, a surprise hit this year has been Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure.” Time Magazine:“Like traditional Japanese poetry, the new pop-culture haiku says a lot with few words. The New Yorker: Lizzie Widdicombe’s brilliant Talk of the Town piece describes the book and launch party entirely in six-word sentences. ![]() Voice of America: Larry and Rachel appear on the Wordmaster program to discuss six-word memoirs and their use in learning and analyzing American English. KCPW public radio (Utah): Brian Schott, host of Utah public radio’s morning show, talks to Larry Smith about the origin of the six-word memoir sensation, and why divorce, drugs, and, always, coffee, is the best fodder for stories. ![]() ![]() Wisconsin Public Radio’s “To the Best of Our Knowledge”: “Could six-word memoirs be the new literary trend?,” asks “Best of Our Knowledge” host Jim Fleming before a conversation about the book. PBS’ Need To Know: A powerful segment with interviews from Iraq and Afghanistan veterans in which they share their backstories to their Six-Word Memoirs on coming home from war.īBC’s Today Programme: Larry Smith talks to the UK’s leading morning show about why 15,000 responded to our six-word challenge, the making of the book, and why Nigel French “Lived in America, came back different.”īBC’s The Word:Larry Smith talks to Harriet Gilbert, host of BBC’s popular “The Word” book and lit show, about what makes a good six-word life story. NPR’s Talk of the Nation: Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser bounce around six-word memoirs with host Neal Conan and his listeners during a lively 12-minute segment that quickly became the “most emailed” story on NPR.org. Here’s what the media said.ĬBS’ The Early Show:A fun and thoughtful segment called Six-Word Memoirs Can Say It All from CBS’ The Early Show, with special appearances from Mario Batali, Joan Rivers, and Stephen Colbert. Hailed as ‘American Haiku,’ praised from the NPR to The New Yorker, named one of Amazon’s Top 100 books of 2008, it’s 1,000 peeks at humanity, six words at a time. Get the book that launched an international Six-Word Memoir® phenomenon and became a New York Times bestseller.
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