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Smith's six-word memoir? "Now I obsessively count the words." And Fershleiser's: "Bookstore to book tour in seconds."Ĭan you write your autobiography in one sentence? Share your six-word memoir. Larry Smith, founding editor of Smith, and Rachel Fershleiser, Smith's memoir editor, talk to NPR's Rebecca Roberts about the fun and the challenge of capturing real-life stories in six little words.
#My life in six words full#
It All Changed in an Instant is full of well-known names - from activist Gloria Steinem ("Life is one big editorial meeting"), to author Frank McCourt ("The miserable childhood leads to royalties"), to actress Molly Ringwald ("Acting is not all I am"). The tiny memoirs are sometimes sad, often funny - and always concise. It All Changed in an Instant is the fourth collection of very, very brief life stories from Smith. In this spirit, Smith Magazine invited writers "famous and obscure" to distill their own life stories into exactly six words. Once asked to write a full story in six words, legend has it that novelist Ernest Hemingway responded: "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn." If asked to share your life right now in 6 words, could you The Journalism 2 Six-Word Memoir Project is an annual tradition.
