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We speak to Larry Smith, editor of the new book "A Terrible Horrible No Good Year," a collection of essays and six-word memoirs about the pandemic written by teachers, students and parents. And, ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - If you were asked to sum up your life in six words would it be a work of triumph -- or tragedy? "Not quite what I was planning," is a book of six word memoirs compiled by ...

As a founding editor of SMITH Magazine in 2006, Larry Smith proposed the idea of six-word memoirs as one way for people to express their life stories. The memoirs were meant as interpretations and ...

And a lot of people, I mean, across all the six-word memoir projects, they talk about their parents, of course, the influence, but their grandparents. And I think it's because in some sense, like, ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. It’s remarkable how much can be packed into just six words. Inspired by ...

Listeners comment on telling the truth and write in with some of their own six-word memoirs. Also, a welcome to station WHQR.

Following two earlier “six-word memoir” titles, this addition collects supersuccinct memoirs written by teenagers (who are identified by their first names and last initials). Like graffiti scrawls on ...