6 words

a friend forwarded this the other day - what would yours be?

mine (today):
photographer for sale - is nice too.

http://www.smithmag.net/sixwords/

Summing It Up (in Six Words)
By Jennifer 8. Lee
For sale: terse memoirs. This week.

The New York-based, online Smith magazine is releasing a collection of six-word memoirs called “Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure” (Harper Collins, 2008). The project was inspired, in part, by the legend of Ernest Hemingway responding to a challenge of a six-word story with “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”

Ordinary Americans’ memoirs are published alongside Stephen Colbert, Richard Ford, Aimee Mann, Dave Eggers and other luminaries. There is a certain beauty in terseness, which is also seen in the five-word acceptance speeches at the Webby Awards. (Our favorite is still Al Gore’s “Please don’t recount this vote” from 2005, which brought down the house).

Smith magazine (which shares the name of one of its co-founders, Larry Smith) began in 2006 to celebrate personal narrative, both large and small (and apparently, very small). The book, which was co-edited by Rachel Ferschleiser, started with an online submission form, but grew to solicited contributions from notable New Yorkers.

Some of the highlights:
· Canada freezing. Gotham beckons. Hello, Si! — Graydon Carter
· Secret to life: marry an Italian. — Nora Ephron
· Brought it to a boil, often. — Mario Batali
· Nobody cared, then they did. Why? — Chuck Klosterman
· Eight thousand orgasms. Only one baby. — Neal Pollack
· I asked. They answered. I wrote. — Sebastian Junger
· Dad died, mom crazy, me, too. — Moby
· Eat mutate aura amateur auteur true. — Jonathan Lethem
· Fifteen years since last professional haircut. — Dave Eggers
· Born bald. Grew hair. Bald again. — A. J. Jacobs
· Well, I thought it was funny. — Stephen Colbert
· Relatively famous parents, very low self-esteem. — Molly Jong-Fast
· Fearlessness is the mother of reinvention. — Arianna Huffington
· Eat drink man man man man. — Michael Musto
· Mom, Dad. Daphne, Owen. Who’s next? — Sean Wilsey
· Gave commencement address, became sex columnist. — Amy Sohn
· I write because I can’t sleep. — Ben Mezrich
· Started small, grew, peaked, shrunk, vanished. — George Saunders


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