[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Katharine Weber, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $10.50.] Thirty-two years ago I was sent by the Smithers Employment Agency to interview with the worst client in the history of … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Sarah Weinman, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $26.] A week after the shiva, still not quite used to seeing my own reflection in the uncovered mirrors, I mustered up … Continue reading
One of the early supporters of this project was (and is) Susan Clements, one of the few who have actually bought multiple Significant Objects. So we are very excited that she’s sent along a few pictures of those Objects in … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Sean Howe, has ended. Original price: 25 cents. Final price: $20.51.] It’s difficult work, wooing Donna. For one thing, the rhythms of my courtship are constantly interrupted by the lustful swarm … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Nathaniel Rich, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $57.] Do you ever struggle to remember insignificant facts? Facts so small and irrelevant to the natural course of your life that … Continue reading
Aggregate cost of objects, sold so far: $40 Aggregate sales, post-Significance: $675.65 Coming up this week: Objects with stories by Nathaniel Rich, Sarah Weinman, Kevin Brockmeier, and more. Still on auction: Time is running out on Meat Thermometer with story … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Ed Park, has closed. Original price: $2. Final price: $62.] If you came of age in the ’70s and ’80s, you probably have some sense of what the fantasy game Dungeons … Continue reading
We’ve asked some Significant Object buyers if they would care to pass along photos of their outstanding purchases, shown in their natural surroundings. These images have begun to arrive; we’ll be sharing more in the days and weeks ahead. Today, … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Sarah Rainone, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $41.] As my husband and I were driving back to New York after my mother’s funeral, I spotted a general store on … Continue reading
Scenes from the mailroom of Significant Objects…
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Andrew Ervin, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $51.] Several weeks ago I was biking around the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, or what’s left of it, and shooting … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Glen David Gold, has ended. Original price: $2. Final price: $56.50.] Hell, of course, has a hierarchy; it is by definition all hierarchy. As James Blish noted, any act of magic … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Nicholson Baker, has ended. Original price: 75 cents. Final price: $51.] Everything had a temperature in those days.
Aggregate cost of objects, sold so far: $29.01 Aggregate sales, post-Significance: $462.33 Coming up this week: Objects with stories by Glen David Gold, Sarah Rainone, Ed Park, and more. Still on auction: Time is running out on Popsicle Stick Construction … Continue reading
