Larry Smith & Co.'s "The Moment: Wild, Poignant, Life-Changing Stories from 125 Writers and Artists Famous & Obscure"

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SMITH Magazine & The Booksmith celebrate the release of The Moment with an evening of wild readings, talk, and sharing. You'll hear some talented authors share their MOMENTS with us -- and anyone from the audience is invited to share a "first line" from a Moment in his or her life.

Many of us think our lives follow a fated path, or one that comes from a route we engaged and strive to follow. But in fact so much of our existence—where we find ourselves in life, love, work, and at home, and where we might end up later—results from a single moment or decision that was made on a whim, even randomly. The stories in The Moment take all shapes and sizes— from written narratives ranging from six to a thousand words, to photographs, comics, illustrations, handwritten letters, tweets, and more. Read more

The amazing cast of readers:

CAROLINE PAUL is a journalist and author of Fighting Fire, a memoir of her time as a San Francisco firefighter, and East Wind, Rain, about the villagers of an isolated Hawaiian island whose lives are forever changed when a plane crash-lands nearby.

AARON HUEY is a contributing editor (photographer) for Harper’s Magazine and a photojournalist who freelances regularly for National Geographic, Harper’s, the New Yorker, Smithsonian Magazine, and the New York Times.

STEVE SILBERMAN is a science writer for Wired and other national magazines.

MATTHEW ZAPRUDER is an editor for Wave Books and teaches as a member of the core faculty of UCR-Palm Desert’s Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing. His most recent book is Come On All You Ghosts.

KIRK CITRON is the founder of the digital advertising agency AKQA. He edits The Long News, and lives in San Francisco and New York City.

MO CLANCY was once a trend forecaster for Fortune 500 fashion and consumer brands. He now focuses on modern artifacts and Mayan culture.

ELLEN SUSSMAN is the author of the novels French Lessons and On a Night Like This. She is the editor of two anthologies, Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave and Dirty Words: A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex.

MICHAEL CASTLEMAN is the author of twelve consumer health guides, among them Building Bone Vitality and The New Healing Herbs, and three mystery novels, most recently, A Killing in Real Estate.

JULIA HALPRIN JACKSON has written fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that has appeared in anthologies from Flatmancrooked and the American Diabetes Association, as well as the literary magazines .Fourteen Hills, Spectrum and Catalyst.

Larry Smith is also the editor of numerous Six Word Memoir books, and the originator of the Six Word Memoir game.

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http://www.booksmith.com/moment