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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 - Paperback

by Larry Smith, Rachel Fershleiser
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Availability:In StockContributor:Larry Smith, Rachel FershleiserPublish date:2008-02-05Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780061374050ISBN-10:61374059UPC:9780061374050Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, Style Manuals, WritingBook Topic:AuthorshipSize:7.10 x 5.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SC5MHTQXE2

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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780061374050ISBN-10:61374059UPC:9780061374050Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, Style Manuals, WritingBook Topic:AuthorshipSize:7.10 x 5.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SC5MHTQXE2
Smith, Larry: -

LARRY SMITH is an adjunct associate professor of economics at the University of Waterloo and a recipient of the University of Waterloo's Distinguished Teacher Award. During his longstanding tenure, Smith has taught and counselled more than 23,000 students on the subject of their careers, representing more than 10 percent of UW's alumni. Smith has worked with more than 500 teams of student entrepreneurs, advising them as they have created companies of significant size and success across industries as broad-reaching as communications, software, robotics, entertainment, design and real estate. Smith is also president of Essential Economics Corporation, an economic consulting practice that serves a wide range of public and private clients. "Why You Will Fail to have a Great Career," his TEDx Talk based on his experience counselling students, has been viewed by over six million people.

Fershleiser, Rachel: -

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.

Publisher: Harper Perennial

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