[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Wayne Koestenbaum, has ended. Original price: $3. Final price: $37.00. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to 826 National.] Gloria Swanson owned a duck nutcracker. Guests, including Jean Harlow … Continue reading
We’ve discussed the intrinsic appeal of some Significant Objects – but what about those objects that lacked such appeal? Things inexplicable, but not in a way that doesn’t necessarily make you want to know more. Sometimes objects like the now-notorious … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Lydia Millet, has ended. Original price: $0.50. Final price: $49.00. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to 826 National.] I’ve always wanted to be good at a bar … Continue reading
I don’t believe we ever formally noted that the recent Hammer Bottle Opener + Alexander Chapman Story was our first Significant Object by one of the finalists from our earlier contest with Slate. (The auction ended yesterday, and it went … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Douglas Wolk, has ended. Original price: $3. Final price: $15.49. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to 826 National.] …In the final year of his career, however, Sanangelo … Continue reading
Just a quick note to observe the completion of the first auction of Significant Objects Volume 2, which actually happened on Tuesday: The Rabbit Candle + Story by Neil LaBute, went for $112.50 (original price $3). An auspicious beginning! Please … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Bob Powers, has ended. Original price: $2. Final price: $51.00. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to 826 National.] I bought this chrome turtle from the first girl … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Sarah Manguso, has ended. Original price: $2. Final price: $20.00. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to 826 National.] When the old lady died, my brothers and I … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Dan Reines, has ended. Original price: $.50. Final price: $12.50. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to 826 National.] I think it was Ted Spain’s to start with, … Continue reading
Last month, I said that if enough of you wrote a six-word story about the Scottish Doll, an object purchased for Significant Objects but then thrown into the garbage, I’d pick a winner and issue a prize. Forty-odd stories later, … Continue reading
According to our highly scientific Adjusted Sales Rank table, the following objects were the 25 most significant of our experiment. Let’s consider these significant objects visually — i.e., without mentioning which authors wrote which stories, and without reference to the … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Amy Fusselman, has ended. Original price: $3. Final price: $13.50. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to 826 National.] 11/21 Hey Snit — Guess what I found, the … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Alexander Chapman, has ended. Original price: $2. Final price: $40.06. Final price: Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to 826 National.] So Mel liked to call himself “The … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Mark Binelli, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $10.49. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to 826 National.] Shortly after I made my First Communion, my cousin … Continue reading
As you can see, we’ve launched Significant Objects, Volume 2. We plan to publish 50 stories, and auction off 50 objects, with proceeds at the end going in what we hope is an impressive lump sum to 826 National, a … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Neil LaBute, has ended. Original price: $3. Final price: $112.50. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to 826 National.] Instead of walking home the way I usually do … Continue reading
Thanks for volunteering your efforts! As we move ahead into the next phase of the project — we’re calling it Significant Objects v2, at the moment — we are indeed lining up a new roster of writers. But before you … Continue reading
On Friday, I posted an Adjusted Final Price table, which allows us to compare our 100 objects’ final prices with their final prices adjusted for Duration Factor. It took a bit of doing, but — after the jump — please find … Continue reading
