6 Word Memoirs

As a founding editor of SMITH Magazine in 2006, Larry Smith proposed the idea of six-word memoirs as one way for people to express their life stories. The memoirs were meant as interpretations and ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Smith Magazine’s six-word memoirs have been lodged in the literary ...

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Publishers Weekly: I Can't Keep My Own Secrets: Six-Word Memoirs by Teens Famous and Obscure

Following two earlier “six-word memoir” titles, this addition collects supersuccinct memoirs written by teenagers (who are identified by their first names and last initials). Like graffiti scrawls on ...

I Can't Keep My Own Secrets: Six-Word Memoirs by Teens Famous and Obscure

Check out these life stories from Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs By Writers Famous and Obscure at womenshealthmag.com ...

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NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - If you were asked to sum up your life in six words would it be a work of triumph -- or tragedy? "Not quite what I was planning," is a book of six word memoirs compiled by ...

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‘If I get chlamydia, blame MySpace,’ is not what is normally expected when someone hears the word memoir.’ However, the creators of Smith Magazine have compiled thousands of memoirs that range from ...

“To be or not to be.” That’s Shakespeare — you might know him. “Britney Spears goes off the rails.” That’s on the cover of tabloids. “I love you” holds such power. A few words can distill lifetimes.

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