Sep 21, 2020
I’m My Mother and I’m Fine, Chy Boyle
Congratulations to Chy Boyle for creating one of the best six-word memoir portraits this semester! Legend has it that when challenged to write a story in six words, Hemingway answered “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” So entered the six-word memoir into the literary canon. Each semester my students create portraits of the individuals described in memoirs from the book, Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure.