The moment
Subtitle: wild, poignant, life-changing stories from 125 wrtiers and artists
By: edited by Larry Smith
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780061719653; 9780062099211
Subjects: American literature; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs; American Authors; Biography
Description: From the creators of Six-Word Memoirs comes The Moment, a collection of personal stories from writers both famous and obscure revealing how a single instant changed their lives forever. An innocuous decision, an unforeseen accident, a chance conversation, a tag sale, a terrorist strike, a tweet ... sometimes all it takes is a single moment to redirect the course of an entire life. In the tradition of Smith magazine's Not Quite What I Was Planning and the sensational Six-Word Memoirs on Love & Heartbreak-and in the spirit of StoryCorps, the Moth, and This American Life-The Moment unveils everyday people's inner lives in narratives of all shapes and sizes, with stories from six to 1,000 words, photographs, comics, illustrations, handwritten letters, and more. It's enough to change your life forever.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Larry Smith; title: Flash / Caroline Paul; title: Chalk face / AJ Jacobs; title: Shot / Dean Karnazes; title: The envelope / Mo Clancy; title: Love in a time of illness / Diane Ackerman; title: Subdued by stroke / Paul West; title: Table time / Laurie David; title: Tattoo / Summer Pierre; title: The killer in me / Michael Paterniti; title: To worry / Amy Sohn; title: Near miss / Kirk Citro; title: Mom's favorite movie of all time / Craig A. Williams; title: A piece / Melissa Etheridge; title: Unexpected pleasure / Jonathan Papernick; title: Someday / Michael Forster Rothbart; title: No consolation / Neal Pollack; title: CheckPoints / Alaa Majeed & David Enders; title: Make love, not war / Jeremy Toback; title: Thank you, Lionel Richie / Matt Dojny; title: Assembly / Vivian Chum; title: The calling / Baratunde Thurston; title: Missed call / Annie Leahy; title: Wicked start / Gregory Maguire; title: Momento mori / Adam Rensch; title: The secret life of parents / Elizabeth Gilbert; title: John Updike sent me a fan letter (once) / Steve Almond; title: C-listed / Mary Elizabeth Williams; title: 5RLG375 / Chris Sacca; title: My blue sticky / Fiona Maazel; title: Lives / Tao Lin; title: Teachable moment / Bill Ayers; title: Disappointment / Nevenka Kurjakovic; title: - Divine intervention / Dan Goggin; title: Poem for the moment / Matthew Zapruder; title: Mr. Criche / Dave Eggers; title: Cornrows / Lori Sabian; title: Dancing, in green, to Ravel / Ellen O'Connell; title: Fluke / Danny Davis; title: Persephone / Micah Toub; title: Trash / Rigoberto González; title: Gonzo girl / Cheryl Della Pietra; title: Rimshot / Josh Axelrad; title: TITLE TK / Piper Kerman; title: Black like me / Haylee Harrel; title: Kitchen confidential / Michael Castleman; title: Horns / Shalom Auslander; title: What would Roland do? / Benjamin Percy; title: Fearless flyer / Ashley Van Buren; title: Hobo beginnings / Dale Maharidge; title: Why I adopted my son / Christoph Marshall; title: Why I adopted my dad / Eddie Comacho; title: Running / Mira Ptacin; title: At first sight / L. Nichols; title: Piazza San Marco / Julian Voloj; title: First kiss / Scott Muska; title: The Crüe / Sara Lovelace; title: Uncaged / Alan Rabinowitz; title: To the rescue / Ellen Sussman; title: The shed / Colin Nissan; title: Curtain call / Attila Kalamar; title: Photo finish / Kimberly Rose; title: True calm / Laura Cathcart Robbins; title: Wally & Beaver / Jeff Church; title: The sign / Caitlin Roper; title: The thin envelope / Sascha Rothchild; title: Liner notes / Elizabeth Jayne Liu; title: If I don't die today, I will marry Kristin Moore / Aaron Huey; title: Boot camp / Wes Moore; title: Sunset Strip / Christine MacDonald; title: Truth, lies, and audiotape / Dan Baum; title: Stage Direction / Saïd Sayrafiezadeh; title: February 12, 2009, 9:14 am / Daniel DiClerico; title: Balls out / James Cañón; title: Marooned / Kristen Cosby; title: Swerved / Darin Strauss; title: Meeting Allen Ginsberg / Steve Silberman; title: Those old keys / Alan Cheuse; title: Mission accomplished / Brian Evenson; title: Tell me how this ends / Pat Callahan; title: Keepsake / Jennifer Egan; title: E-3: October 25, 1986 / Molly Lawless; title: Landing / Paul Miller; title: The verdict / Byron Case; title: Nine lives / Peter Kuper; title: My front line / Jessica Lutz; title: Instructions / Julie Metz; title: Two fays / Dawn McMullin; title: 2.10.01 / Julia Halprin Jackson; title: Like James Brown / Adrianne Frost; title: Crying for their dog / Richard Ferguson; title: The quest / Ramona Pringle; title: Early dismissal / Robin Wasserman; title: Burning up / Qraig R. de Groot; title: Maiden days / Judy Collins; title: Just a man / Nadja Cada; title: Motherless / Tamara Pokrupa-Nahanni; title: The ripple effect / Anthony Doerr; title: Positively 93rd Street / Matthew Leader; title: Smack talk / Melissa Febos; title: Firecracker / Arthur Suydam; title: The silver harmonica / Andrew D. Scrimgeour; title: Denial / Kathy Ritchie; title: Mercy / Steve Anthony Leasure; title: The hidden dangers of blood magic / Robert Joseph Levy; title: Blogging towards oblivion / Emily Steinberg; title: Sleeping bag / Hope Rehak; title: Trusting eyes / Jami Kempen; title: Ingress/egress / Jessica Anya Blau; title: Punchlines & knockouts / Patrick Sauer; title: Head case / Noah Scalin; title: In pursuit of optimism / Tony Schwartz; title: Far side / Katie Killacky; title: Grandma's dildo / Sara Barron; title: Oprah calling / Ray Richmond; title: Vietnam, revisited / Karol Nielsen; title: Conversation with my dad / Ashley Allen; title: Season's greetings / Ellen Jantzen; title: Revisionist history / Catherine Murdock; title: Forgiven / Jennifer Thompson; title: Second chance / Jerry Ma; title: Moving on / Mary Valle; title: Birth / John B. Carnett; title: The moth and the window / Stephen Tobolowsky; title: Tomorrowland / Rebecca Woolf.