Significant Objects

1) Sara Ryan recently wrote “Fair Trade,” a story for the Welcome to Bordertown anthology forthcoming in 2011 from Random House, edited by Holly Black and Ellen Kushner. The story is in comics form with art by Dylan Meconis, with whom Ryan previously collaborated on “Click.”

2) David Abrams is blogging about Fobbit, a serio-comic novel in progress about the Iraq War.

3) Ron Currie Jr.’s second novel, Everything Matters!, was released in paperback yesterday by Penguin. Everything Matters! centers on Junior Thibodeau, who is growing up in rural Maine with his exalted parents and baseball-savant brother. However, Junior knows something no one else does — the world will end when he is thirty-six.

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The crafty blog Tigerlily Tinkering explains how to make a chuppah — the canopy under which a Jewish bride and groom stand (or, as in the photo above, sit) during their wedding ceremony — that displays significant objects between sheets of silk.

Fourteenth in an occasional series.

From your friends at Significant Objects.

• Rachel Axler (@rachelaxler)’s play SMUDGE, which enjoyed its off-Broadway premiere this past January, was  just published by Samuel French. http://bit.ly/bqwJlS #
• NPR story on unpublished Kafka (http://n.pr/de0hbT) misses Monkey Puppet angle. Dara Horn story: http://bit.ly/afuxj2 #
• Not speaking Italian, must take Camilla’s word that show “has a lot to do with S.O. Title: Every Story Has a Price.” http://bit.ly/c5g3qD #
• The Lit Mag Adoption Program for Creative Writing Students: Our friends at @onestorymag and @ElectricLit are in on it: http://bit.ly/bU9EfQ #
• Matt Brown’s latest “design fiction”: http://bit.ly/dCe6bC. He’s an official Core77 columnist now. So handsome: http://bit.ly/bfoq8E #
• Item from @latimesbooks about FSG’s site about its authors’ “work in progress.” http://bit.ly/aV1GrS # (more…)

1) Rebecca Wolff has published a new issue of Fence, the biannual journal of arts and literature.

2) David Shields is finishing a biography of J.D. Salinger; the co-author is Shane Salerno. He’s also finishing edits of a Norton anthology of essays about mortality by contemporary writers; the co-editor is Bradford Morrow.

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“The Curious World of Patent Models” is a traveling show organized by the Rothschild Patent Model Museum. On display at the Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena through Aug. 15, 2010.

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1) Kurt Andersen and Stewart O’Nan each has a story in Stories, the new anthology of short fiction edited by Neil Gaiman & Al Sarrantonio. It’s published by HarperCollins.

2) Merrill Markoe is an intermittent panelist on “Curb: The Discussion,” a talk/analysis of Curb Your Enthusiasm hosted by Susie Essman. It airs AFTER the new syndicated run of Curb on The TV Guide Network. She is working on her new book of essays which will be out in 2011.

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From your friends at Significant Objects.

All aboard, y'all.

Our friends over at Underwater New York have yet another great event in the works:

We’ll set up an audio recording station – the Story Tank – on Pier 11 beside PortSide’s tanker Mary Whalen, docked in Red Hook/Atlantic Basin. Come tour the tanker, take in the watery festivities, and share your own true stories of water: fish stories, skinny dips, canoe trips, seasickness, ferry rides, waterfront walks, sunset cruises, boat-bound breakups, secrets you’ve shouted to the open ocean, secrets you’ve tossed in a polluted canal – anything goes, we’re just looking for your stories or memories about water!

More details here. Check it out!

And while we’re at it, check out the latest fascinating haul of objects gathered at Brooklyn’s Dead Horse Bay, including this fellow:

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• Study says voluntary-pay schemes way more successful with charity tie-in. Sort of our experience on S.O. Sort of. http://bit.ly/d6iFyn #
• "Check which famous writer you write like with this statistical analysis tool." http://iwl.me/ #
• Susanna Daniel (@SusannaDaniel) on "The Quiet Hell of 10 Years of Novel Writing." http://bit.ly/ahl1ge #
• Our past contributor Shelagh Power-Chopra (@objetpetita) has an impressive new online story: Objects + microfiction: http://gootdings.com/ #
• Excellent, insightful Pekar appreciation by our friend (& contributor) Dean Haspiel: http://bit.ly/aL65SE #
• RFID tags used to attach "stories" to secondhand goods: http://bit.ly/bBTodv (Thanks Jee) #
• Storyteller Sam Winston rearranges Romeo & Juliet by "emotional state," among other approaches. http://bit.ly/dgfj5M #
• Photo: http://tumblr.com/xr4dejwwt #
• "A book is an object, a work of manufacture whose many elements, from type and binding to quality of…" http://tumblr.com/xr4d85zca #

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1) Gary Panter is painting, working on a new Jimbo comic and, and also working on a new Devin Gary & Ross album.

2) Sung J. Woo’s first novel, Everything Asian, comes out in paperback on July 20. The launch will be at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop in New York, at 9 pm on July 23.

3) Shelagh Power-Chopra has launched a shop, Goot Dings!, where she uses narration in the item posts.

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