Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure edited by Rachel Fershleiser and Larry Smith 256 pages

In the spirit of the short story “For sale: baby shoes, never worn” attributed to Hemingway, SMITH magazine editors invited its reader to submit six-word memoirs. Alternating between entries that are touching, sweet, ingenious, bitter, weird, this is a nice overarching attempt to distill the human experience. I laughed, I cried – great book.