Books in Print
The Moment | Six Word Memoirs | Graphic novels
The Moment
The Moment: Wild, Poignant, Life-Changing Stories from 125 Writers and Artists Famous & Obscure (Harper Perennial) starts in the middle of blazing fire and ends in Disneyland. In between are 125 stories about opportunities, serendipities, epiphanies and calamities that had a profound impact on a life. Stories come from bestselling authors Jennifer Egan, Dave Eggers and Elizabeth Gilbert; musicians Melissa Etheridge and Judy Collins; 100-year-old journalism legend Ruth Gruber; and many people published for the first time anywhere, who, like all of us, have a life-changing story.
Buy it: On sale at Amazon.com
Six-Word Memoirs
Six Words About Work
The latest installment of the bestselling Six-Word Memoir® series offers more than 400 passionate ways at looking at work today. Created by SMITH Magazine and the consulting firm, Mercer, Six Words About Work is a perfect stocking stuffer, 6th night of Hanukkah treat, or gift for any graduate trying to make sense of the vast world of work. Packed with inspirational quotes on why people do what they do, tips and tricks to navigate the work life, and lessons learned along the way, Six About Work will inspire and delight readers of all passions and professions.
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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.
Submit your Six-Word Memoir Memoir at SMITH
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Six-Word Memoirs by Teens Famous & ObscureNearly 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.”
Submit your Six-Word Memoir at SMITHTeens.com
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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 Six-Word 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 EditionHarper 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® phenomonon 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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Six Words (Japanese edition)Discover, January 2011What, really, does a media maker want more than to utter the following four words without irony? ‘We’re huge in Japan.” And so we are, with the release of a Japanese translation of our first book,Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure. The book was been translated by Toshiya Echizen, who’s also penning a column in the Japanese weekly, Shukan ST, an English-language publication for people learning English in Japan. Each week, Mr. Echizen will introduce Six-Word Memoirs to readers from the site or our Twitter feed. “The purpose of the column is to explain the possible meaning or meanings of the phrases and to generally instruct our readers how to better understand them,” says Kichiro Tamagawa, Shukan ST division manager. How do you say “Verbal hemophilia. Why can’t I clot?” in Japanese anyway?
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 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.”
