[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Bruce Sterling, has ended. Original price: $3. Final price: $86.] In early 1861, before the Union blockade closed the port of New Orleans, four ships arrived from distant Naples. They bore … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Rob Baedeker, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $17.82.] Baron Von Blauheimer “Muscle Dove” Statuette This is a porcelain statuette of the Baron Von Blauheimer holding a “peace dove” on … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Sheila Heti, has ended. Original price: $4. Final price: $77.51.] I never thought of leaving Cape Cod. I imagined I would live there my entire life long. But then Jack and … Continue reading
The following Q&A, with Significant Objects co-director Rob Walker, was published earlier this month by Good Magazine. Interviewer: Patrick James. Make Believe Mementos: Significant Objects turns cast-aside knickknacks into sought-after heirlooms — through the power of fiction. Rob Walker and … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Jason Grote, has ended. Original price: 99 cents. Final price: $16.49.] I wish to reassure anyone who is considering purchasing me that it is not my look of need, afflicting though … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Sara Ryan, has ended. Original price: $2. Final price: $15.50.] Anne Cole writes: The summer when I was nine, Mom bought boxes and boxes of popsicles on sale, lemon-lime, some discontinued … Continue reading
Aggregate cost of objects, sold so far: $20.53 Aggregate sales, post-Significance: $329.33 Coming up this week: Sara Ryan’s story will go up this afternoon. Stories of objects by Bruce Sterling, Rob Baedecker of Kasper Hauser, and more, coming soon. Still … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Stewart O'Nan, has ended. Original price: $3. Final price: $71.] Every evening when Henry came home from work, without fail, he set his briefcase on the marble-topped table in the front … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Jennifer Michael Hecht, has ended. Original price: 99 cents. Final price: $10.50.] Kathy can remember how she left both of her ex-husbands but she can’t remember how she left Jeffrey. She … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Rebecca Wolff, has ended. Original price: 50 cents. Final price: $19.50.] There was this family, and their eight-year-old son developed a tumor on, or in, his jaw. They had it removed, … Continue reading
Susannah Breslin, who wrote the story that made the Necking Team Button into a Significant Object, offers the point of view of a writer participating in this project in a great post, “The Story Behind The Story.” Defnitely worth a … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Curtis Sittenfeld, has ended. Original price: $1.00. Final price: $17.50.] It’s not that I think I married the wrong man. Because really, how can any of us make a decision except … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Todd Pruzan, has ended. Original price: $2.99. Final price: $14.50.] The worst thing is: he sees the golf-ball bank two, maybe three full minutes before it breaks his nose. It’s sitting … Continue reading
Aggregate cost of objects, sold so far: $15.40 Aggregate sales, post-Significance: $247.30 Coming up this week: Stories of objects by Curtis Sittenfeld, Stewart O’Nan, and (later today) Todd Pruzan, among others. Still on auction: You’ve got … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Adam Davies, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $14.50.] Authentic MR. YODELS Love Totem The “Sylvia St. Etienne” edition This is the only witness to — or, some say, the … Continue reading
The following Q&A, with Significant Objects co-director Joshua Glenn, and project participant Matthew Sharpe, was published earlier this week by Jacket Copy, the Los Angeles Times’ literature/publishing blog. Interviewer: Carolyn Kellogg. One man’s trash is another man’s fictional treasure JC: … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Matthew De Abaitua, has closed. Original price: $1.99. Final price: $15.50] My Daddy shouts at me when I go near the piggybank, and he screams when I turn it upside down. … Continue reading
[The auction on this Significant Object, with story by Mimi Lipson, has ended. Original price: 39 cents. Final price: $31.] From AW: The Lost Diaries Wednesday, June 13, 1979 Halston was having a birthday party for the Dupont twins, so … Continue reading
