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 [...]

On the opening day of SXSWi, I learned that handing a cop a Monopoly “get out of jail free card” will get you out of a speeding ticket (courtesy of spiky-headed Brian Brushwood at his “Scam Your Way Into Anything or From Anybody” talk), the line “Maybe someone would have uploaded a transcript to Compuserve [...]

Or, at least, each one of you meets Emily Steinberg, in Graphic Therapy: Notes from The Gap Years. Her illustrated autobiography chronicles life as a single, Jewish artist with more psychoanalysts than dates. Recent topics include matchmakers, Barbie, infomercial breast enhancement, country weekends, loyal dogs, male nudes, the High Holy Days, and Venus of Willendorf.

We whipped up a fun little addition for the community today–six-word valentines!
In conjunction with the release of our new book, Six-word Memoirs on Love & Heartbreak, we’ve prettied up our eCards so you can send your favorite six-word memoirs on love and heartbreak as valentines. Find a story you like and click “Send as eCard” [...]