Books in Print


Six-Word Memoirs

It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure. A thousand new six-word sagas from writers famous and obscure, and the first collection of six-word memoirs to include backstories. From acclaimed authors Malcolm Gladwell, Wally Lamb, Junot Diaz, Amy Tan, and Art Spiegelman, and celebrities such as Sarah Silverman, Suze Orman, Margaret Cho, Yogi Berra, Tony Hawk, Terrell Owens, Leonard Nimoy, and Chelsea Handler, to ordinary folks around the world, our much-anticipated sequel is a thousand ways at looking at life, six words at a time. Bring it instead of a bottle of wine at your next party—and watch the conversation fly.
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Six-Word Memoirs by Teens Famous & Obscure
Nearly 1,000 six-word life stories by and for teens in America and beyond—”We’re the family you gossip about.” “Bulimia was only cramping my style.” “My dad has more MySpace friends.”
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Six-Word Memoirs on Love & Heartbreak
HarperPerennial, January 2009
A pocket-sized book packed with 500 six-word memoirs on love in its many shapes and forms from SMITH readers and famous folk like Dr. Drew Pinsky, Marc Ecko, Robert Hass, Janice Dickinson, Elizabeth Gilbert, Armistead Maupin, and more.
Submit your memoir at www.smithmag.net/sixword-love.
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Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure—Deluxe Edition
Harper Perennial, October 2008
This extra-special hardcover edition includes more than 100 new memoirs…for just a few more bucks. Submit your memoir at www.smithmag.net/sixwords.
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Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure

HarperPerennial, February 2008
Get the book that launched an international six-word memoir phenom and became a New York Times bestseller. Hailed as ‘American Haiku,’ praised from the NPR to The New Yorker, named one of Amazon’s Top 100 books of 2008, it’s 1,000 peeks at humanity, six words at a time. Submit your memoir at www.smithmag.net/sixwords.
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Graphic Novels


A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge
Coming August 2009 from SMITH and Pantheon
The story of Hurricane Katrina, as seen through the eyes of six people as they escape New Orleans and grapple with the storm’s aftermath, told in graphic novel form. First published as a 16-part webcomic on SMITH, Newsweek says A.D. is “authentic and powerful,” and Rolling Stone declares it “stunning.”


Shooting War
Grand Central Publishing, November 2006
The full-length graphic novel that tells the story of Jimmy Burns, an American blogger reporting on the war in Iraq in 2011. First published as a 15-part webcomic on SMITH, Shooting War has been called “stunningly rendered” by Newsweek. The Huffington Post says it’s “the book that will make you look smart if you put it on your coffee table.”

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