Comments on: Missouri Shotglass

By: For sale: the ashtray that inspired William Gibson

For sale: the ashtray that inspired William Gibson — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:11:57 +0000

[...] The pieces were written by authors such as William Gibson, Sheila Heti, Nicholson Baker and Jonathan Lethem. Bylines accompanied each listing and bidders understood that they were only offering to pay for a [...]

By: Author Updates | Significant Objects

Author Updates | Significant Objects — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 10:02:21 +0000

[...] Here’s the schedule for Jonathan Lethem’s Chronic City Paperback Tour (Fall [...]

By: 5 Author Updates (2) | Significant Objects

5 Author Updates (2) | Significant Objects — Thu, 06 May 2010 10:02:09 +0000

[...] Soft Skull will be publishing. The first two are both by Significant Objects writers: They Live by Jonathan Lethem, and Death Wish by Christopher [...]

By: And then there were none… | Significant Objects

And then there were none… | Significant Objects — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:36:10 +0000

[...] few moments ago, the auction for our 100th item (the Missouri Shotglass, story courtesy of Jonathan Lethem) ended. Moment of silence, please. The research phase of the [...]

By: Joshua Glenn

Joshua Glenn — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:21:18 +0000

And then there was one. Five hours to go on this auction!

By: Insignificant Objects | Significant Objects

Insignificant Objects | Significant Objects — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:40:49 +0000

[...] the months before we published the 100th story in our Significant Objects experiment, many of you clicked on an author’s name — in the [...]

By: Thanks… | Significant Objects

Thanks… | Significant Objects — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:20:18 +0000

[...] the word about Significant Objects. Yesterday we posted our 100th and final story — one by Jonathan Lethem. We couldn’t be happier with how it’s all turned out. Although we launched without [...]

By: mollypeck

mollypeck — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:53:09 +0000

I never learned to type (literally, my only regret), and I am often teased for my one-finger key-tapping. When a part-time “bookseller”/part-time Private Investigator teased me from the across our shared register area years ago, I sighed: “Yes, I am a ‘hunt-and-peck-er’”. He didn’t skip a beat, and informed me “I could tell just by lookin’ you’re a-huntin’ pecker!”.

I don’t miss that job.

By: Mimi

Mimi — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:48:05 +0000

And that’s the cherry on the sundae!

By: Josh Glenn

Josh Glenn — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:57:59 +0000

I can’t believe it! We set out to publish 100 stories and sell 100 items, and now we’ve done it. Or we will have done the latter, I guess, once this auction closes next Friday. It’s been an amazing experiment. I’m glad we’re (tentatively) planning to launch a second iteration later this month… It’s great that the experiment is over, but I’m not ready to say farewell to the Significant Objects project just yet.