Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Authors Famous and Obscure

Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Authors Famous and Obscure
Edited by Rachel Fershleiser and Larry Smith
Harper Perennial, 2008. 227 pgs. Nonfiction

Just like the title says, Not Quite What I Was Planning is a collection of six-word memoirs collected by Smith magazine from a variety of writers, including Dave Eggers, Stephen Colbert, Nora Ephron, and Elizabeth Gilbert. Two examples I enjoyed from the book are

WASP wants
to be soul
man.
-Scott Pratt

and

Put whole self in, shook about.
-Melissa Delzio

Entries vary in quality, but the collection as whole is an interesting and very quick read. The Library also owns Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak.

MBC