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9/11: CHAOS: Told by Someone Who Was There
The one thing that's obvious about most novels that describe 9/11 is that the authors weren't there (and have never lived in Manhattan).Larry Smith was there.He lived in Manhattan and worked near the World Trade Center.He was inside one of the subway tunnels as it filled with smoke.He watched one of the twin towers fall.In 9/11: CHAOS, you'll see what he saw, feel what he felt.
139 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 20, 2021
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About the author
Larry Smith
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Larry Smith is the founder of The Six-Word Memoir® Project, a bestselling series of nine books, board game, live event program, and a global phenomenon found in classrooms, conferences, and corporate settings alike.
Larry speaks on the power of personal storytelling across the world. He has been invited to work with teams at Twitter, Levi’s, JPMorgan Chase, Snapchat, Dell, Yelp, Shutterfly, ESPN and Google; nonprofits including the Zen Hospice Project and Dress For Success, as well as foundations, philanthropies, and schools. He’s a frequent speaker at conferences such as TEDx, PopTech, Summit Series (called “Davos for the Millennials”), the AARP 50+ Convention. He teaches the class, “What’s Your Story? How to Deliver an Authentic Elevator Pitch” in private sessions and on-site at companies.
Prior to founding the Six-Word Memoir project, Larry had a robust career in journalism. He was articles editor of Men’s Journal, executive editor of Yahoo! Internet Life, senior editor at ESPN The Magazine, a founding editor of P.O.V. and editor-in-chief of its sister publication, EGG. While living in San Francisco, he was managing editor of the wire/syndication service AlterNet and an editor at Dave Eggers' Might Magazine. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, ESPN Magazine, Popular Science, Men’s Health, Salon, Slate, Buzzfeed, and has contributed essays to many anthologies, including Modern Love: 50 True and Extraordinary Tales of Desire, Deceit, and Devotion and The End of the Golden Gate: Writers on Loving and (Sometimes) Leaving San Francisco.
He lives in Berkeley, CA, with his wife, the writer Piper Kerman, and their son.
Larry Smith is the founder of The Six-Word Memoir® Project, a bestselling series of nine books, board game, live event program, and a global phenomenon found in classrooms, conferences, and corporate settings alike.
Larry speaks on the power of personal storytelling across the world. He has been invited to work with teams at Twitter, Levi’s, JPMorgan Chase, Snapchat, Dell, Yelp, Shutterfly, ESPN and Google; nonprofits including the Zen Hospice Project and Dress For Success, as well as foundations, philanthropies, and schools. He’s a frequent speaker at conferences such as TEDx, PopTech, Summit Series (called “Davos for the Millennials”), the AARP 50+ Convention. He teaches the class, “What’s Your Story? How to Deliver an Authentic Elevator Pitch” in private sessions and on-site at companies.
Prior to founding the Six-Word Memoir project, Larry had a robust career in journalism. He was articles editor of Men’s Journal, executive editor of Yahoo! Internet Life, senior editor at ESPN The Magazine, a founding editor of P.O.V. and editor-in-chief of its sister publication, EGG. While living in San Francisco, he was managing editor of the wire/syndication service AlterNet and an editor at Dave Eggers' Might Magazine. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, ESPN Magazine, Popular Science, Men’s Health, Salon, Slate, Buzzfeed, and has contributed essays to many anthologies, including Modern Love: 50 True and Extraordinary Tales of Desire, Deceit, and Devotion and The End of the Golden Gate: Writers on Loving and (Sometimes) Leaving San Francisco.
He lives in Berkeley, CA, with his wife, the writer Piper Kerman, and their son.
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February 12, 2025
Very misleading
Got this as I was interested to read the "man in the streets" view of 911 as it happened, instead I very quickly began to suspect this was more a "fictional" account of what happened rather than a true account by someone actually going about their business as the horror unfolded around them?
I just feel mislead by the whole thing, so much so I stopped reading after a few chapters to read reviews on it (Something I usually do anyway but, for some reason, failed to on this occasion) it would appear in not the only one to feel mislead.
Got this as I was interested to read the "man in the streets" view of 911 as it happened, instead I very quickly began to suspect this was more a "fictional" account of what happened rather than a true account by someone actually going about their business as the horror unfolded around them?
I just feel mislead by the whole thing, so much so I stopped reading after a few chapters to read reviews on it (Something I usually do anyway but, for some reason, failed to on this occasion) it would appear in not the only one to feel mislead.
February 14, 2025
I found this book confusing part fictional part based on true characters. The facts given towards the end however were interesting
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