Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure by Larry Smith
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Some of the six-word memoirs are wonderful. Some are just fodder. All in all, though, brilliant bits that put Twitter to shame.
Some faves:
Woman with man’s name— thanks, parents! —Curtis Sittenfeld
Became my mother. Please shoot me. —Cynthia Kaplan
Hope my obituary spells “debonair” correctly. —Gregg Easterbrook
Girlfriend is pregnant, my husband said. —Shonna MacDonald
Blogging is easy. Writing is hard. —Jennifer Shreve
Additional quotes:
Study mathematics. Marry slut. Sum bad. —Dan Robinson
Blogging is easy. Writing is hard. —Jennifer Shreve
Spent life looking for dead people. —Melody Lassalle
Found great happiness in insignificant details. —Alisdair McDiarmid
An unusual turn of gender circumstances. —Dragana Varadinac
I lost god. I found myself. —Joe Kimmel
Girlfriend is pregnant, my husband said. —Shonna MacDonald
No shit I’m critical— you’re flawed. —Elizabeth Koch
Liars, hysterectomy didn’t improve sex life! —Joan Rivers
My life is just like yours. —Matt Stephens
Blade cuts, blood runs, scars remain. —Heather Hudgins
Hope my obituary spells “debonair” correctly. —Gregg Easterbrook
Traded mastheads for Texas desert sky. —Whitney Joiner
Cheated organizational systems but never people. —Ryan Bright
A new memoir every five years. —Srini Rajagopalan
Revenge is living well, without you. —Joyce Carol Oates
Became my mother. Please shoot me. —Cynthia Kaplan
Woman with man’s name— thanks, parents! —Curtis Sittenfeld
Lived like no tomorrow; tomorrow came. —C. C. Keiser
I died at an early age. —John Coyne
Strange like cat. Smart like rat. —Andrew Randall