Toronto Star on dating/social sites that match by taste in books and the like. http://bit.ly/9ADO4a # Grumbler assesses NYT article claiming "social stigma" attached to reading books in public. http://bit.ly/cUZiir # Climb Inside Bookshelf Tower http://tumblr.com/xr4gn8y9n # Mushrooms + 40,000 … Continue reading
1. The Huffington Post recently named Andrew Ervin’s debut Extraordinary Renditions one of the 15 “Most Anticipated Books for the Rest of 2010.” The book will be published on Sept. 1. (Pre order from our shop.) 2. Benjamin Percy received … Continue reading
1. William Gibson‘s Zero History, his tenth novel, will be released September 3 in the UK, September 7 in the US. He will be touring the US, UK and Canada during September and October. 2. Jason Grote‘s play 1001 [cast … Continue reading
1) Dean Haspiel won an Emmy for Outstanding Title Design (for Bored to Death). Also, Haspiel’s app/comic STREET CODE #1 launched earlier this month; and from October 2 – December 12, there will be an exhibition on the making of … Continue reading
How to turn a book into a book rack. http://tumblr.com/xr4gfwuwr # "Odd website where people photograph themselves feeding food to inanimate objects." http://bit.ly/9qlWiq # Atlantic on book about pre-Kindle "reading revolution," The Book In The Renaissance. http://bit.ly/bmTHov # Salvation Army … Continue reading
We’ve just started a “bookstore” page using Amazon Associates, where we’ll gradually be adding works by all of our 200+ contributors who have books for sale. To keep it from being too overwhelming, we’re starting with a small number (all … Continue reading
This summer, I’ve been scanning and posting the covers of my “File X” collection — i.e., paperback novels from the 1940s-70s the titles of which include a freestanding letter “X” — to my other website, HiLobrow. This was intended to … Continue reading
1) Kate Bernheimer has two new books out: Horse, Flower, Bird (Coffee House Press, illustrated by Rikki Ducornet), a collection of her “forceful and spirited stories that will definitely prove disturbing” (according to Library Journal Review); and she’s edited My … Continue reading
At WIRED SCIENCE, earlier this month, science journalist Jonah Lehrer explained “something important about how the human mind calculates value.” There’s now suggestive evidence that our faith in the authentic — especially when the authenticity is supported by effective marketing … Continue reading
A quick note: I just did a short interview about S.O. (and objects and value and story) on Where We Live, with John Dankonsky, on Connecticut Public Radio. I chimed in for about the last 15 minutes, in what I … Continue reading
*** Seventeenth in an occasional series.
1) Matthew Sharpe has a novel, You Were Wrong, coming out in a few weeks from Bloomsbury. Check out Sharpe’s website, on which you’ll find, among other things, videos exploring key themes and locations in the novel. Its first two … Continue reading
Objects with “no physical use-value” but that serve “cognitive” needs. http://tumblr.com/xr4fv1wi7 # How to “upcycle” a book into a planter. http://tumblr.com/xr4fuwiug # Smithsonian videos of old “animated” books, via Boingboing. http://tumblr.com/xr4fug4lg # The 15 Most Overrated Contemporary American Writers by … Continue reading
1) On August 24, Scott Jacobson and some friends — including Significant Objects contributor Todd Levin — are publishing a humor book, SEX: Our Bodies, Our Junk (Random House). Art is by Robert Sikoryak, and the graphics minds from The … Continue reading
Speaking of Rosecrans Baldwin‘s new novel You Lost Me There, it turns out our friends over at Coudal did the trailer, above. Coudal explains the team-up: [Mr. Baldwin] wanted to use the prologue to the book and tracked down a … Continue reading
From your friends at Significant Objects.
*** From your friends at Significant Objects.
1) Rosecrans Baldwin‘s first novel, You Lost Me There, is coming out from Riverhead on August 12. 2) Susanna Daniel‘s first novel, Stiltsville (HarperCollins), is coming out in August, too. She’ll be reading in the Midwest and in Florida, where … Continue reading
