Several years ago SMITH Magazine came out with their first enormously successful book of tiny reflections entitled Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure. The collection challenged people to tell their story in only six words, inspired by Hemingway's famous response when asked to do just that: "For sale: baby shoes, never worn." The popularity of the original books has since inspired submission contests several niche spin-offs on love, motherhood, food, ...
Published on September 10, 2009 15:43