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Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
Edited by Rachel Fershleiser and Larry Smith
HarperPerennial, 225 pages, $12 paper
The economy, precision and energy of words animates this little book of tiny biographies:
“School geek married a luscious cheerleader.”
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“Asian, white trash Scranton. Let’s polka.”
“Fat jolly bearded origami-folding accountant.”
The book is irresistibly clever, as life seems enlarged, rather than compressed, into petite phrases.