IN THIS UPDATE: Ben Greenman, Ben Katchor, J. Robert Lennon, Matthew Sharpe. 1) Ben Greenman published a new collection, Celebrity Chekhov (Harper Perennial), which takes the short fiction of Anton Chekhov, removes the characters, and inserts contemporary celebrities. It has … Continue reading
BoingBoing finds "delightful" science fiction story lurking in a review of $6800 speaker cable http://t.co/6oF85GN # Intel commissions futuristic stories for internal planning; "unique literary project" – Boing Boing http://t.co/M8lllTY # Photographer Hong Hao's "My Things" project, arranging 20 years … Continue reading
IN THIS UPDATE: Jason Grote, Terese Svoboda, Teddy Blanks. 1) Jason Grote will be presenting a lecture based on his Hilobrow series of Silver Age comic book double-entendres at Adult Ed in Union Hall in Brooklyn on December 7. View … Continue reading
Rob Walker’s Unconsumption tumblr recently mentioned PASS THE BATON, a Japanese on- and offline retail concept that updates the thrift store experience by adding — yes, you guessed it! — meaningful narrative to castoff items. *** For more evidence of the … Continue reading
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IN THIS UPDATE: Jenny Davidson, Alissa Nutting, David Abrams. 1) Jenny Davidson‘s novel Invisible Things was released yesterday. It is the sequel to The Explosionist. *** 2) Alissa Nutting‘s Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls was picked by Steve Almond … Continue reading
IN THIS UPDATE: Joanne McNeil, Robert Lopez. 1) Joanne McNeil recently wrote a catalog essay for the New Museum exhibition “Free.” Her essay “Overfutured” looks at Jon Rafman’s “9 Eyes of Google Street View” and other technology-inspired art in the … Continue reading
'The Novelist's Lexicon': 77 writers each choose 1 word that "creates a window their work." http://lat.ms/b0LWfe # Art project goal: "Object That Remains A Dream" (Pics) – @PSFK http://t.co/V0M1bkL # DailyLit, a service that let’s you read books by email … Continue reading
IN THIS POST: Bruce Sterling, Todd Levin, Susannah Breslin, Ben Greenman, Marisa Silver. This is the twentieth installment in a series of twenty posts announcing — in no particular order — which 100 stories will be collected in the Significant … Continue reading
IN THIS UPDATE: Colleen Werthmann, Josh Kramer, Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer. 1) Colleen Werthmann is currently appearing in a play by The Civilians, an investigative theater company, at the Irondale Center in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. IN THE FOOTPRINT, a new play with … Continue reading
IN THIS UPDATE: Dara Horn, Curtis Sittenfeld, Cintra Wilson, Chris Adrian, Carl Wilson. This is the nineteenth installment in a series of twenty posts announcing — in no particular order — which 100 stories will be collected in the Significant … Continue reading
IN THIS UPDATE: Annie Nocenti, Sheila Heti. 1) After the January 10th earthquake in Haiti, Annie Nocenti spent four months there making documentaries. This week, HiLobrow.com published the first in a series (titled “Gadou Gadou”) of ten reports by Nocenti. … Continue reading
IN THIS POST: Joe Wenderoth, Jim Hanas, Jenny Offill, Jeff Turrentine, James Parker. This is the eighteenth installment in a series of twenty posts announcing — in no particular order — which 100 stories will be collected in the Significant … Continue reading
I feel like the New York Times Magazine invented this feature — the annotated photograph of someone’s den, telling stories about their significant objects — but here’s an example of the genre from Seed Magazine that I came across the … Continue reading
"Collector extraordinaire Lisa Congdon" on collection-a-day project, which is great. http://etsy.me/8YjRGr # Maud Newton's desk! http://t.co/238nk15 # A renaissance rooted in technology: the literary magazine returns http://t.co/2Aqomtc via @guardian # Via @nprnews: Doodle Your Way Out Of Writer's Block | … Continue reading
IN THIS POST: Mark Doty, Laura Lippman, Kurt Andersen, Kate Bernheimer, John Wray. This is the seventeenth installment in a series of twenty posts announcing — in no particular order — which 100 stories will be collected in the Significant … Continue reading
One of our favorite S.O. buyers sent along these images documenting a rare convergence of Significant Object, author, and new owner. On the left, that’s Stewart O’Nan, whose Duck Tray story was an early highlight of Vol. 1 of this … Continue reading
Earlier this fall, in an interview with Significant Objects’ co-curator Rob Walker, MoMA’s Paola Antonelli called Rob an “object whisperer.” Amused and intrigued by this moniker, Randy Ludacer of Beach Packaging Design and the excellent packaging-criticism blog Box Vox, whipped … Continue reading
