Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure by Smith Larry

Author:Smith, Larry [Smith, Larry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography
ISBN: 9780061374050
Barnesnoble:
Goodreads: 10134011
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2008-02-01T00:00:00+00:00

—Gretchen Vitamvas

Overjoyed I’m not like

my sister.

—Elizabeth DeLamater

Little German girl,

big American world.

—Lisa Turner

Hope my obituary spells

“debonair” correctly.

—Gregg Easterbrook

Just in:

boyfriend’s gay.

Merry Christmas.

—Seshie Hargett

Traded mastheads for

Texas desert sky.

—Whitney Joiner

Lucky sperm club entrant

wins life.

—Steve Conlin

Was father, boys died,

still sad.

—Ronald Zalewski

Tried everything once,

few things twice.

—Ed Zevetski

Baptist Mom. Jewish Dad. Atheist.

Surprised?

—Sara Faith Alterman

Cheated organizational

systems but never people.

—Ryan Bright

Asked and

answered,

asshole,

next question.

—Joe Lockhart

Really, doing fine,

thanks for asking.

—Fuzzy Gerdes

I’d rather be watching a movie.

—Lawrence Levi

Never could resist overachieving.

—Chris Harris

Her blue eyes

capture the distance.

—Sonya Cheuse

Born with glaucoma…

fading to black…

—Susan Giusto

I watched a lot of television.

—Adam Hirsch

Oh shit! No way? Yeah

dude.

—Ned Vizzini

Girls from the Bronx are

different.

—Arielle Basch

Five feet, but in

your face.

—Toby Berry

Born bald. Grew hair.

Bald again.

—A. J. Jacobs

Mistook streetlight for

the moon. Climbed.

—Zack Wentz

Boyfriend in bed,

still a lesbian?

—Cheryl Burke

I wrote a book about

this.

—Vittorio Giannini

Wanted to live forever,

died trying.

—Syona Luciferina

Hugged some trees,

then burned them.

—Tom Price

Happy child,

wild teenager,

adult anarchist.

—Dar Wolnik

Right place,

right time,

good lawyer.

—Ben Brown

To paraphrase William

Faulkner: I endured.

—Don Willmott

To make a long story short…

—Jace Albao

Famished, I had

seconds…

and thirds.

—Richard Strager

Lazy Renaissance man

settles for dilettantism.

—Bradley Lyons

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