Comments on: Santa Nutcracker

By: Author Updates | Significant Objects

Author Updates | Significant Objects — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:01:38 +0000

[...] Kurt Andersen has a story in Stories, the new anthology of short fiction edited by Neil Gaiman & Al [...]

By: Flavorwire » Exclusive: Q&A with Significant Objects Creator and Yard Sale Poet Rob Walker

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:17:02 +0000

[...] the auction has since ended, with the button going for a cool $36.88]. I guess I thought maybe Kurt Andersen’s story would be the big early bid-getter, because he’s well-known, and because it’s a [...]

By: Project update: LA Times Q&A | Significant Objects

Project update: LA Times Q&A | Significant Objects — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:02:28 +0000

[...] Kurt Andersen’s story about an old Christmas nutcracker is the first so far to tie one of the objects (fictionally) to a [...]

By: Rob Walker

Rob Walker — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:46:21 +0000

A friend just dropped me a line about this story: “That nutcracker piece was worth doing the whole project.” Agreed!

By: EmilyHaHa

EmilyHaHa — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:51:09 +0000

Being from Indiana myself, I had to keep remembering that this story is fictitious. It’s so spot on…excellent!

I was a 4-Her, myself, but the National FFA headquarters are in Indianapolis (of course!), and having had both parents grow up on a farms, plus a grandma who still bakes the occasional pie, well… This story feels like home.

Thanks.

By: The Significant Objects project | chavansoft

The Significant Objects project | chavansoft — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:08:40 +0000

[...] writers with story objects include Luc Sante, Ben Greenman, Stewart O’Nan, Kurt Anderson, and there’s one coming from Boing Boing’s own Mark [...]

By: Laura Sanderson Healy

Laura Sanderson Healy — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:34:36 +0000

I loved this story. You should call my friend Eric Alberta, who is a Hollywood collectibles expert (ex-Sotheby’s). He is married to Valerie Hoyt of Christie’s, my childhood friend from Memphis. He told the wildest stories and showed me catalogues and tons of stuff when I visited their house in Hudson, NY, last winter. My Sandersons were from Indiana and my father worked on a Salinas ranch, very like East of Eden, for an uncle who had moved West.