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Culture Lust is a blog about the latest ideas stirring in the creative world, hosted by Angela Carone. As arts and culture producer for KPBS Radio's These Days, she's constantly reading, watching, hearing and evaluating the books, movies, music, articles, performers, plays, and cultural phenomena that cross her desk.
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KPBS Staff Write Memoirs In Six Words
Last week a book arrived on my desk called Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure. It's a collection of six-word memoirs submitted to an online project launched by SMITH magazine. They made a book out of it and I'll tip my hat and make a blog post out of it.
Of course, the original hat tip goes to Ernest Hemingway. Legend has it Hemingway was challenged to write a novel in six words. Lord knows how many bottles of booze it took for Papa to brilliantly write, "For sale: baby shoes, never worn." Inspired by the legend and aware of a national memoir craze, the editors over at SMITH launched sixwordmemoir. com and received thousands of entries. It didn't take long for the likes of Stephen Colbert, Dave Eggers, and Joyce Carol Oates to submt their versions.
I decided to write my own. Unfortunately, nothing came right away.
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