IN THIS UPDATE: Ben Katchor, Stephen O’Connor. UPCOMING EVENT: On October 9th (from 6-7 p.m. at San Francisco’s Root Division, as part of Litquake’s Litcrawl), SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS will present its first live event: An Evening of Remarkable Stories about Unremarkable … Continue reading
Lyall Watson was a South African-born botanist, zoologist, biologist, anthropologist, zoo keeper and BBC presenter who wrote Supernature: A Natural History of the Supernatural (1973), among other popular books that helped usher in the Seventies’ New Age trend. Among other … Continue reading
IN THIS POST: Margaret Wertheim, Lydia Millet, Lucinda Rosenfeld, Luc Sante, Kevin Brockmeier. UPCOMING EVENT: On October 9th (from 6-7 p.m. at San Francisco’s Root Division, as part of Litquake’s Litcrawl), SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS will present its first live event: An … Continue reading
The first-ever Significant Objects live event, part of Litquake in San Francisco, will of course include fantastic all-new stories, read live by five of our esteemed contributors, breathing fresh Significance into a new batch of objects hand-picked by this project’s … Continue reading
IN THIS UPDATE: Myla Goldberg, Alissa Nutting, Joshua Glenn. UPCOMING EVENT: On October 9th (from 6-7 p.m. at San Francisco’s Root Division, as part of Litquake’s Litcrawl), SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS will present its first live event: An Evening of Remarkable Stories … Continue reading
“Bookshelf” wallpaper. http://tumblr.com/xr4jpdjmr # Fun interview by Paola Antonelli w/ S.O. co-founder Rob Walker includes nice mention our project, plus a bunny picture. http://bit.ly/a9Tlbl # iPad app based on typewriter. http://bit.ly/dDi2ct # “The strange afterlife of authors’ book collections,” Boston … Continue reading
IN THIS POST: Matthew Sharpe, Matthew J. Wells, Matt Brown, Mark Jude Poirier, Mark Frauenfelder. UPCOMING EVENT: On October 9th (from 6-7 p.m. at San Francisco’s Root Division, as part of Litquake’s Litcrawl), SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS will present its first live … Continue reading
IN THIS UPDATE: Shelley Jackson, Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer. UPCOMING EVENT: On October 9th, from 6-7 p.m. at San Francisco’s Root Division, as part of Litquake’s Litcrawl, SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS will present its first live event: An Evening of Remarkable Stories about Unremarkable … Continue reading
IN THIS POST: Neil LaBute, Myla Goldberg, Miranda Mellis, Mimi Lipson, Meg Cabot. DON’T FORGET: On October 9th, from 6-7 p.m., as part of Litquake’s Litcrawl, SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS will present its first live event: An Evening of Remarkable Stories about … Continue reading
S.O. friends and readers, this may interest you: With collaborators Ellen Susan and G.K. Darby, I’ve launched a new side project: Signage depicting imaginary building uses in New Orleans. In a nutshell: We’ve identified a number of buildings around New … Continue reading
Michael Zelehoski’s solo exhibition, Objecthood, at the Christina Ray gallery, “brings actual, quotidian objects into the realm of art. Zelehoski works almost exclusively with everyday objects, but by giving them autonomy and internal coherence, he is able to reveal their … Continue reading
IN THIS UPDATE: Jonathan Lethem, Jessica Helfand. DON’T FORGET: On October 9th, from 6-7 p.m., as part of Litquake’s Litcrawl, SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS will present its first live event: An Evening of Remarkable Stories about Unremarkable Things featuring Rob Baedeker, Chris … Continue reading
DON’T FORGET: On October 9th, from 6-7 p.m., as part of Litquake’s Litcrawl, SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS will present its first live event: An Evening of Remarkable Stories about Unremarkable Things featuring Rob Baedeker, Chris Colin, Miranda Mellis, Beth Lisick, and Katie … Continue reading
IN THIS POST: Rachel Axler, R.K. Scher, Peter Rock, Patrick Cates, Padgett Powell. DON’T FORGET: On October 9th, from 6-7 p.m., as part of Litquake’s Litcrawl, SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS will present its first live event: An Evening of Remarkable Stories about … Continue reading
IN THIS UPDATE: Miranda Mellis, Jason Grote, Terese Svoboda. 1) Miranda Mellis recently reviewed Thalia Field’s Bird Lovers, Backyard in Brooklyn Rail. Excerpt: More than half a century ago, Hannah Arendt was already arguing that scientists “move in a world … Continue reading
1) Annalee Newitz published a sci-fi story, “The Gravity Fetishist,” in the webzine Flurb. Excerpt: “Follow me.” Ahmed held out a hand, fingers spread to admit Chris’ between them. Down more stairs, and at last through a heavy door into … Continue reading
This is the third installment in a series of twenty posts announcing — in no particular order — which 100 stories will be collected in the Significant Objects book (forthcoming in 2011 from Fantagraphics). *** 11. Sarah Manguso’s JAR OF … Continue reading
From the AP, 11 hours ago: NEW YORK — A University of Delaware graduate student who made a bold bet has become the biggest one-day winner in the history of the game show “Jeopardy!” Roger Craig earned $77,000 on Tuesday’s … Continue reading
