Six Words vs. Six Words?

Oh, this is a quaint idea, a six word memoir of sorts all based on that Hemingway “White Baby Shoes, For Sale, Never Worn” story thing. These people at fashion blog Seasick Mama might be onto something, but I can’t get this nagging feeling that I’ve heard about this before.

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Bites: Harry Potter is a self-hating Jew, Dan Sinker, Chuck Palahniuk, Dark Dark Dark, and more

Six-Word Memoirs, meet the Gigantic Quotes Twitter Project. Play nice. If Harry Potter tells that old joke about two Jews rubbing a penny together, and Harry Potter is Jewish, does that make him an anti-Semite? The Millions teaches me that there is a genre called “mom books”. So this is what Dan Sinker – founder of Punk Planet – is up to. Chuck Palahniuk relates to Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby, and is afraid of being buried alive according […]

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