Significant Tweets for Week Ending 2010-08-08

Book Sculpture by Federico Uribe http://tumblr.com/xr4fa2wvp # “Copyright free books summarized w/ Word 2008’s AutoSummarize 10-sentence function.”: http://tumblr.com/xr4f9ujho # 1940’s Seaman’s Savings Bank. So cool. I’d love to read a story about it! http://tumblr.com/xr4f9ug70 # S.O. contributor Michael Atkinson 8/13 … Continue reading

Significant Objects Meme (16)

Regency TR1 First Pocket Radio by Mark Richards ARTIST STATEMENT: Moore’s law runs the computer industry and has begun to determine the pace of human life as well. As the pace quickens, we rush to embrace the future as much … Continue reading

Author Updates

1) Andrew Ervin published a story in Monkeybicycle last month, and — looking ahead — his first book, Extraordinary Renditions (Coffee House Press), will be out in September. 2) On August 4, Rebecca Coffey‘s flash piece, “From the Notebook of … Continue reading

Booker Prize 2010

We’re thrilled to report that a novel by one of our authors — Tom McCarthy — was included on the Man Booker Prize 2010 longlist. That novel is titled C. According to the Booker website, C follows the short, intense … Continue reading

Significant Objects Meme (15)

Ton Zwerver’s “Everyday Sculptures” only exist for a moment “as they are photographed and changed again and again. Everyday one or more sculptures are made out found objects that come across his path.” Fifteenth in an occasional series.

Significant Tweets for Week Ending 2010-08-01

Mulling “cover” design for ebooks. http://tumblr.com/xr4epbifu # “Art” of filling a bookshelf entails “a lamp, a sailboat and a few small pictures.” http://tumblr.com/xr4ekuh2z # Latest on the Salinger bio co-written by S.O. contributor David Shields: http://bit.ly/b3A2rg # Concord Free Press’s … Continue reading