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Hello, friends and readers and interested parties: Just a quick word to say we’re here, and there will be news of our activities soon. We’re hard at work finalizing the lineup and other details of the Significant Objects book. We’ll have more to say and announce soon. Thank you for your patience!
Continue reading...Significant Tweets for Week Ending 2010-08-29
29. August 2010
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 Discarded Books = 1 Garden of Knowledge: http://tumblr.com/xr4gn2ydt (via @TreeHugger) # How To Turn Old Paperbacks into Custom Hardbacks [...]
Continue reading...Significant Tweets for Week Ending 2010-08-22
22. August 2010
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 encourages thrifters to post (Significant?) finds on its Tumblr http://tumblr.com/xr4g9i8y2 # Book of essays about "voluntary suffering" is printed [...]
Continue reading...The Significant Objects Bookstore
20. August 2010
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 recent releases), and adding a few new titles every weekday, so keep an eye on [...]
Continue reading...Significant Objects Meme (18)
18. August 2010
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 campaigns — is a deep-seated human instinct, which emerges at an extremely early age. Consider [...]
Continue reading...On Connecticut Public Radio’s “Where We Live”
17. August 2010
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 believe was an hour-long segment with Paul Bloom, author of How Pleasure Works: The New [...]
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17. August 2010
*** Seventeenth in an occasional series.
Continue reading...Significant Tweets for Week Ending 2010-08-15
15. August 2010
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 Anis Shivani : http://www.metafilter.com/94640/Overrated-Writers # “What to do with old college textbooks”: http://tumblr.com/xr4fj9rxt # Late on this, but [...]
Continue reading...Happy Middle Child’s Day!
12. August 2010
From your friends at Significant Objects.
Continue reading...Significant Tweets for Week Ending 2010-08-08
8. August 2010
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 event for new book Hemingway Cutthroat: A Mystery at The Book Review in L.I. http://bit.ly/aKuvZA # Rave Francine Prose [...]
Continue reading...Significant Objects Meme (16)
6. August 2010
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 as we race to discard the past. The technology I’ve photographed shows just the beginning of the computer [...]
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S.O. v1 — the EXPERIMENT
- * CLICK HERE for all 100 authors from SO v1
- Annalee Newitz
- Ben Katchor
- Bruce Sterling
- Cintra Wilson
- Colson Whitehead
- Curtis Sittenfeld
- David Shields
- Doug Dorst
- Jonathan Lethem
- Kate Bernheimer
- Kurt Andersen
- Lydia Millet
- Matthew Klam
- Matthew Sharpe
- Meg Cabot
- Merrill Markoe
- Myla Goldberg
- Nicholson Baker
- Rob Baedeker
- Sheila Heti
- Shelley Jackson
- Stacey D'Erasmo
- Stewart O'Nan
- Toni Schlesinger
- William Gibson
S.O. v2 — for 826 National
- * CLICK HERE for all 50 authors from SO v2
- Alissa Nutting
- Amy Fusselman
- Annie Nocenti
- Barbara Bogaev
- Bob Powers
- Carl Wilson
- Chris Adrian
- Deb Olin Unferth
- Debbie Millman
- Douglas Wolk
- Gary Panter
- Joe Lyons
- Julie Klausner
- Kathryn Davis
- Luc Sante
- Margaret Wertheim
- Mark Jude Poirier
- Martha McPhee
- Mimi Lipson
- Neil LaBute
- Philip Graham
- Rachel Axler
- Sam Means
- Tom McCarthy
- Wayne Koestenbaum
S.O. v3 — for Girls Write Now
- * CLICK HERE for all 50 authors from SO v3
- Ben Greenman
- Blake Butler
- Carole Maso
- Christine Hill
- Damion Searls
- Dara Horn
- Heidi Julavits
- Helen DeWitt
- Jenny Offill
- Jim Shepard
- Justin Taylor
- Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
- Maaza Mengiste
- Marisa Silver
- Matt Brown
- Matt Sumell
- Miranda Mellis
- Rick Moody
- Ron Currie Jr.
- Scarlett Thomas
- Stacey D'Erasmo
- Stephen O'Connor
- Susanna Daniel
- Trinie Dalton
- Wesley Stace
1. September 2010
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