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Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
Harper Perennial
February 2008
On Sale: February 5, 2008
240 pages ISBN: 0061374059 EAN: 9780061374050 Paperback
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Non-Fiction Memoir
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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