6个字的回忆录(有声)
ROBERTS: Lets hear it from Shane in Cincinnati. Shane, welcome to TALK OF THE NATION.
SHANE (Caller): Hi, hows it going?
ROBERTS: Good, how are you?
SHANE: Im doing pretty good.
ROBERTS: Whats your six-word memoir, Shane?
SHANE: What is going to happen now?
ROBERTS: Well, thats another good epitaph.
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Mr. SMITH: The actress Marlee Matlin wrote one which would be a fantastic epitaph for her: Ive done it all except here.
ROBERTS: Yeah, that was another one where you needed to know who wrote it to understand what it meant.
Ms. FERSHLEISER: Right, but then there are others that are so universal. You know: Loneliness - one egg in the pan. I just think we all know what that feels like at some point in our lives.
Mr. SMITH: My life made my therapist laugh.
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ROBERTS: Right. Either thats a really good therapist or a really bad one. I cant quite decide.
Mr. SMITH: Real tricky life.
ROBERTS: Lets hear from Brian in Concord, New Hampshire. Brian, welcome to TALK OF THE NATION.
BRIAN (Caller): Good afternoon, guys, Ive got two for you. One is world biography: six wedded, two dead, two beheaded - guess who.
ROBERTS: Oh, Henry VIII, there you go.
BRIAN: And my personal one: Im too bored to fight on Wii.
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ROBERTS: I find that hard to believe, Brian, but thank you for sharing that.
Weve had a couple of people with a couple of choices. You all must have rewritten your six-word memoirs a hundred times.
Ms. FERSHLEISER: Yeah, we have one for each book at least.
Mr. SMITH: The teens - we have a separate site, , and they basically rewrite their memoir every 10 minutes - hormones raging, lives changing. But my latest six-word memoir is: Now I obsessively count the words.
ROBERTS: Right, you must. Because even just writing the introduction for this segment, I started thinking about things as they fit into six-word memoirs. Whats yours, Rachel?
Ms. FERSHLEISER: My six-word memoir for this is: morning, national television; afternoon, bookstore bathrooms. Because thats the contrast of my day job at a scrappy used bookstore to being, you know, on the road, being on NPR and appearing in bookstores. Its a big contrast for me.
ROBERTS: My guests are Rachel Fershleiser and Larry Smith. You can join us with your six-word memoir at 800-989-8255, or send us email: talk@. Youre listening to TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.
Lets take a couple more of these. Weve got Michael in Cleveland, Ohio. Michael, welcome to TALK OF THE NATION.
MICHAEL (Caller): Hey. Thank you. How are you?
ROBERTS: Good. How are you?
MICHAEL: Great. Im opening up another restaurant. My name is Mojo Hershman(ph). Hyper chef bouncing off the wall.
ROBERTS: Hyper chef bouncing off the wall. Thats an excellent one. Thank you, Michael. Good luck with your restaurant. Lets hear from Deona(ph) in Washington, New Jersey.
DEONA (Caller): Hi. Mine is - you want me to do what?
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Mr. SMITH: That reminds of I still cant believe she did that. Maybe you two got together.
ROBERTS: Thats right.
DEONA: Well, I take care of animals, so...
ROBERTS: Oh, well, that - yeah, that gives a different spin on it.
Mr. SMITH: Different date.
ROBERTS: You want me to be - to do what? Are you all finding enough momentum going in this to do more of these? Are there theme books coming out? What happens next?
Ms. FERSHLEISER: We get a lot of different themes. You know, love and heartbreak was the first one that spoke to us, and so we did a whole book of that. And the teen book was really powerful, but there are so many themes left. You know, the parenting memoirs are huge. We did a six-word mom-oirs contest, so wed love to do a book of those. I think theres a lot about faith, you know, specifically Judaism and Christianity or just all kinds of faith together. Theres a lot of universality in what people have to say about those things.
Mr. SMITH: Theres a woman who just did six-word memoirs - she sent it to us and well post it on the blog - six-word memoirs for all the Oscar nominees, you know? And that reminds me of I still practice my Oscar speech. Anything we try, it works. Six words has a little magic to it.
ROBERTS: I still practice my Oscar speech is a great one. There was also one - turned 11, no letter from Hogwarts.
Ms. FERSHLEISER: Yes. A lot of people did not get their Hogwarts letters or are looking for their Edward Cullen vampire boyfriend.
ROBERTS: Lets hear from Murphy in Oklahoma City. Murphy, welcome to TALK OF THE NATION.
MURPHY (Caller): Hi. Thanks for having me on the air. Im a construction worker and have been my entire life, probably always will be. So mine would be work hard - wake up, work hard, and wilt away.
ROBERTS: Wake up, work hard and wilt away. Murphy, that was kind of depressing.
Mr. SMITH: And theres a poet right inside him.
ROBERTS: There you go. We have a tweet from someone who says Holden gave me permission to rebel. Thats a little J.D. Salinger reference for you on the week of his death.
Mr. SMITH: You absolutely see current events coming into the site. Obama ran, now I can fly, right after Obama was elected. A lot of Holden Caulfield. Holden gave me permission to rebel, that kind of thing. Holden caught me in the rye.
ROBERTS: I think we have time for a couple more. Heres John in Houston. John, welcome to TALK OF THE NATION.
JOHN (Caller): Hi. Thanks for having me on. My six-word memoir is I believe yesterdays tomorrow is today.
ROBERTS: Yesterdays tomorrow is today.
Mr. SMITH: A brainteaser.
Ms. FERSHLEISER: Yeah.
ROBERTS: There you go. We all had to think about that. There was silence there for a minute but we got it. Lets hear from Drew(ph) in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Drew, welcome to TALK OF THE NATION.
DREW (Caller): Hi. Thanks for having me. You may not get this reference. Mine is, found a peanut, it was rotten.
Ms. FERSHLEISER: I know that song.
ROBERTS: Yeah. Now were all going to have that tune going through our heads for the rest of the day, Drew.
DREW: Very good.
ROBERTS: Thanks for that.
DREW: Youre very welcome.
ROBERTS: How about Jared in San Francisco. Jared, welcome to TALK OF THE NATION.
JARED (Caller): Hi. I deal in my daily life with the federal recognition policy for Indian tribes, for those who have been terminated throughout the U.S.s history, and sadly, our six-word memoir is you cant get there from here.
ROBERTS: Huh.
Mr. SMITH: You know, we work with a lot of nonprofit (unintelligible) we're doing a project with the American Cancer Society and, you know, you can take whats your thing, whether its a battered women shelter or, you know, working with Native Americans, and six words is a form of self-expression. It absolutely works. Its been very powerful for all sorts of groups.
ROBERTS: And its sort of an interesting teaching tool too.
Ms. FERSHLEISER: Yeah. Weve had a lot of schools using it. I mean, from kindergarten through graduate school, and we get sent pictures of bulletin boards and people who did it at a birthday party or a wedding. Its really a wonderful tool for people to get to know each other.
Mr. SMITH: In a third grade classroom, a little nine-year-old girl looked me in the eyes and said, nine years stacked within my soul.
ROBERTS: Wow.
Ms. FERSHLEISER: A little intense.
ROBERTS: Yeah, I imagine. I think we have time for one more. This is Brian in Boston. Brian, welcome to TALK OF THE NATION.
BRIAN (Caller): Hi. Thank you. This time Ill get it right.
ROBERTS: Oh, thats an excellent way to end, Brian. Thank you so much. And thank you so much to Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser. They co-edited the "Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak" and the current one, "It All Changed in an Instant." They joined us from our bureau in New York. Thank you so much for being here.
Ms. FERSHLEISER: Thank you.
Mr. SMITH: What a pleasure. Thank you, Rebecca.
ROBERTS: Again, you can post your own six-word memoirs and read samples from the book at , click on TALK OF THE NATION.
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