Sounds like things went pretty well at our debut live event out in San Francisco, at least if our friends and contacts are to be believed: “It was fantastic! Loved it. Huge crowd, super fun.” “Not sure how to explain … Continue reading
IN THIS UPDATE: Sheila Heti, Robert Lopez. 1) Sheila Heti‘s new book, How Should a Person Be?, was released on October 5 in Canada by House of Anansi Press. (It can be ordered online by Americans.) David Shields writes, “Sheila … Continue reading
IN THIS POST: Jason Grote, J. Robert Lennon, Helen DeWitt, Greg Rowland, Ed Park. *** This is the ninth installment in a series of twenty posts announcing — in no particular order — which 100 stories will be collected in … Continue reading
Big thanks to all who came out to our Litquake / Lit Crawl event at Root Division! Thanks also to all our participating writers, and supsersize thanks to Rob Baedeker for hosting duties, and for wearing a super-suede suit! We’ll … Continue reading
Let me say it again with the right hashtag: Our first ever live event TONIGHT, part of @litquake. Details: http://bit.ly/dtAM6f #LitCrawl # Our first ever live event TONIGHT, part of @litquake. Details: http://bit.ly/dtAM6f #litquake # "4" Angel + Story by … Continue reading
You must attend the first-ever S.O. live event! Reading live (in alphabetical order): Rob Baedeker, Chris Colin, Beth Lisick, Miranda Mellis, and Katie Williams. Followed by the first-ever Object slam, your chance to invent Significance for an object to be … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Beth Lisick, has ended. Original price: 99 cents. Final price: $62.95. Proceeds of this auction have been donated to Root Division, host of the first-ever Significant Objects live event, in connection … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Katie Williams, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $17.12. Proceeds of this auction have been donated to Root Division, host of the first-ever Significant Objects live event, in connection with … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Chris Colin, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $15.50. Proceeds of this auction have been donated to Root Division, host of the first-ever Significant Objects live event, in connection with … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Rob Baedeker, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $22. Proceeds of this auction have been donated to Root Division, host of the first-ever Significant Objects live event, in connection with … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Miranda Mellis, has ended. Original price: $2. Final price: $12. Proceeds of this auction have been donated to Root Division, host of the first-ever Significant Objects live event, in connection with … Continue reading
That’s right, readers. Starting in a matter of hours we’ll publishing one all-new Significant Objects story each day this week, all leading up to the first-ever S.O. live event, in San Francisco. Please alert your friends! Our contributors this time … Continue reading
NYC folks: Go to the release event for @jimhanas collection “Why They Cried.” http://bit.ly/a60jvy Sounds fun! # Very large book cover archive: http://bookcoverarchive.com/ # New Republic looking for “literary intern.” http://bit.ly/cDFWzT # Books added to our “store” all the time. … Continue reading
We love to give regular updates about the doings of all our contributors, but this might be a first. Jim Hanas’ new book Why They Cried, a collection of stories, may be the first such item to include a Significant … Continue reading
IN THIS POST: Kathryn Davis, Jonathan Lethem, Joe Lyons, Jim Shepard, Jennifer Michael Hecht. 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: … Continue reading
