Books in Print
Six-Word Memoirs
Six-Word Memoirs by Teens Famous & ObscureComing January 2009 from SMITH and HarperTeen.
Nearly 1,000 six-word life stories by and for teens in America and beyond. Submit your memoir at SMITHTeens.com
Six-Word Memoirs on Love & HeartbreakHarperPerennial, 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 EditionHarperPerennial, 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 DelugeComing 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 WarGrand 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.”
