Three minutes, 20+ six-word memoirs. A torrent of self-expression from writers famous and obscure at The Rumpus & Tin House benefit at NYC’s glorious Highline Ballroom on November 17, 2009.

Six-Word Memoirists: Highline Ballroom, Nov. 17 2009 from SMITHmag on Vimeo.

Here’s the video of our trip to Google in mid-February. We had a good, if tough crowd (meaning: that didn’t laugh at enough of our jokes), and now it’s archived for eternity, or until there’s no more Google, whichever comes first.

Rachel, Tim and I were delighted to be invited to the authors@google series today at company’s headquarters in Mountain View, CA. We told the story of the making of Not Quite What I Was Planning to a crowd of Googlers who we presume were not also going to see the tennis star James Blake later [...]