This week’s Member of the Week is something of a famous one in a storytelling world that plays with the line between the professional and amateur, the celebrity and unknown. Robin Templeton is the author of the first six-word memoir that appears in the first book: “After Harvard, had baby with crackhead.” Her short, short [...]

It takes an interesting type of young woman to spend her free time beating people up while wearing roller skates. I discovered this recently when I met up with the girls of Gotham Girls Roller Derby, New York City’s only all female roller derby league, to collect six-word memoirs on the derby life. While these [...]

Our favorite neurotic illustrated memoirist is back, and she’s worshiping Monet, eating at diners, and painting nude self-portraits on commission from her parents. No, really. Read it here in the latest session of Graphic Therapy.

Do you know the sigh of relief I released when I finished dropping my copies of Love, Mom and True Mom Confessions in the mail yesterday, completely confident that the package and enclosed loving card would arrive in New Jersey with days to spare? Hell hath know fury like the mom who gets her card [...]

Hear those birds singing? Feel that sun shining? Smell hyacinths popping up in parks? Is everything sweet and happy and sort of like being in love? Sounds like spring is giving you a serious case of cynicism deficiency.

Our resident neurotic, Emily Steinberg, can fix that right up for you. The newest installment of her graphic [...]

It got intense in the comment section of our six words on “Why You Didn’t Call Back” contest, held to celebrate the release of Rachel Greenwald’s new book, Why He Didn’t Call You Back: 1,000 Guys Reveal What They Really Thought About You After Your Date. In nearly 200 entries, six words a pop, [...]

We heard many amazing stories while on tour for Six-Word Memoirs on Love & Heartbreak. As we went from bookstore to bookstore meeting six-word memoirists, they shared a lot of love, and even more heartbreak. Yet hope springs eternal, and at Tattered Cover Books in Denver, we met author and dating coach Rachel Greenwald*, who’s [...]

To celebrate our excerpt of Gimme Shelter and interview with author Mary Elizabeth Williams, we held a little contest: What’s your six-word housing story? More than 200 of you left your six words in the comments section of her interview as well as below the initial contest call.

To celebrate the beginning of this year’s South by Southwest music festival, Paul Ford from The Morning News wrote 1,302 six-word reviews of mp3s submitted by this year’s bands. I found the positive (Good voice, lots of moving parts.), negative (Wants me anxious, but I’m bored.), and borderline unintelligible (Why are bears in cages anyway?) [...]

Over at Memoirville, we’ve published Rebecca Touger’s interview with Susan Jane Gilman, author of Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven. Gilman chronicles her 1986 trip through China: “[We went] on a romantic impulse, hoping to become female Bryons and Kerouacs and impress the world with our derring-do. Instead, we found ourselves in a foreign [...]