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 been called “nothing short of brilliant,” which may or may not be true, but may be true.

2) Ben Katchor will participate in a roundtable discussion on “The Art of the Graphic Novel” with Lynda Barry, Hillary Chute, Christopher Couch and Francoise Mouly on Dec. 5th at 2:30 pm at The Philoctetes Center, 247 East 82nd Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10028. Katchor will also be reading at Comics Plate, a performance/screening event on Dec. 13th at The Wild Project, 195 East 3rd Street, New York, NY 10009.

3) J. Robert Lennon has new stories in Weird Tales and Electric Literature, due out shortly.

4) Matthew Sharpe will read from his relatively new novel, You Were Wrong, this Thursday and Sunday. Read an excerpt from the novel at Swink.

Thursday, December 2, 6:00 p.m.
Reading at Labyrinth Books
122 Nassau St., Princeton, NJ

Sunday, December 5, 3:00 p.m.
Reading at Sunny’s Bar
253 Conover St.
Brooklyn, NY 11231

More tour information here.

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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 the original series of posts here.

2) Terese Svoboda recently read from Pirate Talk or Mermalade with Diane Wakowski at the “Other Words” conference in St. Augustine. “Angelface” and “The Financier” at Brooklyn Rail. “How Big a Boat” in JMWW.

3) Teddy Blanks is working on a solo album. The movie he scored, Tiny Furniture, has been released by IFC Films to glowing reviews and a better-than-expected box office. The soundtrack is available as a free download here. There’s an interview with Blanks about the movie’s poster design here.

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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 as one of his Favorite Fall 2010 Books, on NPR’s “Here and Now.” Listen to the show here.

3) David Abrams has a short story, “The Things He Saw,” appearing in the Fall 2010 issue of The Connecticut Review. He continues to blog about Fobbit, a serio-comic novel in progress about the Iraq War.

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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 show.

2) Ropert Lopez’s Asunder (Dzanc), a collection of stories, was released earlier this month. Lopez is the author of two previous novels, Part of the World and Kamby Bolongo Mean River, the latter of which was named one of the 25 Most Important Books of the Decade by HTMLGiant. Watch the animated book trailer. Lopez tells us: “There is a release event for Asunder at Barbes in Park Slope, on Saturday, December 4th at 5 p.m, hosted by Nelly Reifler. There will be guest readers and some guest stars playing music.”

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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 music, tells the story of the largest development project in Brooklyn’s history. The play examines the conflicts that erupted in from Atlantic Yards’ unveiling through to its current resolution in an attempt to discover how the fate of the city is decided in present-day New York and what can be learned from this ongoing saga of politics, money, and the places we call home. The play is constructed from interviews with real life players in this Brooklyn epic, including local residents, business owners, Daniel Goldstein, political leaders such as Letitia James and Marty Markowitz, activists, union members, and community leaders. Info: http://www.thecivilians.org

2) Josh Kramer is excited to announce The Cartoon Picayune, a new self-published magazine fusing the art of comics and the tools of journalism. Cartoonpicayune.com is now online, and you can put in your email address to stay in the loop. Josh is currently working on the first issue, which will be full of his own comics reportage and hopefully done in time for MoCCA fest in New York City next April. More of Josh’s work can be seen at his blog.

3) Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer has published a new video-essay at Ryeberg.com: “Human Factory: Re-enactment and Repetition.”

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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. Excerpt:

My Haitian film students are devoted to telling the stories of their country in their own circuitous, gentle style. They film as they live: wander into a life, look around, notice things, leave. No prying, no trickery, no push to find an ending. Today we’re filming Sonise, a 17-year-old pregnant girl with an easy smile that somehow only increases her impenetrability. She’s about to have her first baby in mud, filth and stench. I ask Keziah, one of my students, what she thinks of Sonise. Keziah’s a statuesque Haitian with a body steady as a tripod, making her a perfect hand-held shooter. Keziah says: “Sonise? She should be very afraid. But she’s not.”

2) Sheila Heti‘s new book, How Should a Person Be? (Anansi) is excerpted at length in the new n+1 (issue 10).

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1) Miranda Mellis invites one and all to X-REFERENCE, a multimedia launch party to celebrate the launching of ENCyClopEdiA Vol 2 F-K. There will be readings, performances, and collaborations by local vol. 2 contributors: Mary Burger, Tammy Rae Carland, Tyler Carter, and many others. Friday, November 19th at 7:30pm at Small Press Traffic Center for Literary Arts (at California College of the Arts), Timken Lecture Hall, 1111 8th Street, San Francisco. Presented by The Encyclopedists (Tisa Bryant, Miranda Mellis, Kate Schatz).

2) Joe Lyons invites one and all to attend Future Ten 7: Too Big To Fail, Pittsburgh’s annual 10 minute play festival. Joe’s newest play, There Will Be Jetpacks, a tale of how to love/ruin your family through science, will be among the evening’s 8 selections. The show runs November 4th through 6th and the 11th through the 13th. All shows start at 8pm and tickets are $12 at the door ($10 if purchased in advance). Go to Futuretenant.org for tickets and details.

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1) Today at 6 pm, Toni Schlesinger reads an excerpt of a new book in progress at the The New York Society Library. INFO: Members’ Room, 53 East 79th Street, 212-288-6900 x244. Schlesinger’s most recent original theater piece was The Palace, which played in June at St. Ann’s Warehouse, in New York.

2) Ed Park has a story in Bound to Last: 30 Writers on Their Most Cherished Book!, which was published last week. He notes that the story, “Dungeon Masters Guide,” will be the third in “my D&D/RPG ‘trilogy’ of tales (thus far comprising ‘Welcome to Tyosen™!’ and ‘Cow Vase’).” Click on Ed’s name, to read “Cow Vase.”

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1) This month, Jason Grote‘s play 1001 will be produced at NYU’s Gallatin School and at Howard Community College in Maryland.

2) Rebecca Wolff has a long poem — “The Curious Life and Mysterious Death of Peter J. Perry” — coming out in The Literary Review this month.

3) Kate Bernheimer and Neil LaBute will be interviewed by Lynn Neary about fairy tales on NPR’s Weekend Edition, on Sunday, November 7. Airing sometime between 8:40 a.m.—9:45 a.m. EST and available on the NPR website.

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1) Ben Ehrenreich has an essay on the violence in Mexico in the October 14 issue of the London Review of Books [subscribers only], a long article about death in the November issue of Los Angeles magazine, and a review of (fellow S.O. author) Tom McCarthy’s C in the November 4 issue of The Nation. He’s also happy to report that City Lights Books will be publishing his second novel, Ether, next fall.

2) Gabriel Levinson has announced a goal of raising $10,000 by June 1, 2011 for his Book Bike project. This amount will cover all operating costs for its three-month season; thousands of dollars of which will be spent on books at indie Chicago bookstores over the 12-week period (July 1 to October 1). Making a donation will put you in the running for prizes!

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1) Matthew Sharpe continues to tour in support of his new novel, You Were Wrong.

Monday, October 25, 7:00 pm.
Reading at Book People
603 N. Lamar,
Austin, TX 78703

Tuesday, November 9, 8:00 p.m.
Reading at the National Arts Club
15 Gramercy Park S
New York, NY 10003

Thursday, December 2, 6:00 p.m.
Reading at Labyrinth Books
122 Nassau St., Princeton, NJ

Sunday, December 5, 3:00 p.m.
Reading at Sunny’s Bar
253 Conover St.
Brooklyn, NY 11231

More tour information here.

2) Sari Wilson is working on a nonfiction book for Scholastic. State of Emergency profiles two artists and writers — Dave Eggers and Josh Neufeld. The book will discuss Eggers’ oral-history project Voices of Witness and how it grew into his book Zeitoun. Neufeld’s profile will discuss his Red Cross volunteer experience and the book-length comic that grew out of it, A.D. New Orleans After the Deluge. State of Emergency is scheduled for publication in 2011. It will be used in middle school and high school classrooms throughout the country.

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1) Earlier this month, Christine Hill‘s project Volksboutique transformed into a Berlin shop. The primary activity will be an updated version of her Armory Apothecary from 2009 [pictured above]. The shop features an apothecary counter that will be filled with an inventory of talismans for visitors to consider; Hill provides a file box of “attributes” on flash cards, and together she and the customer/visitor assemble a care package that consists of the objects they’ve selected with the character traits they’ve assigned them. Volksboutique, Choriner Strasse 51, Storefront, 10435 Berlin Prenzlauer Berg: Open Fridays 11 am — 7 pm and by appointment.

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2) As our readers already know, Significant Objects co-editor Joshua Glenn is also co-editor of HiLobrow. Recently, he helped launch another website: Semionaut is an international magazine of semiotic cultural and brand analysis. Though most of its contributors work in the field of commercial semiotics, Semionaut is aimed at a general readership. Josh’s recent posts include “Yoga minus Contemplation” and “Inevitable Parenting.”

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1) Terese Svoboda is reading today (October 17) at KGB with Ben Greenman and Matthew Salesses, 8:00 p.m.

2) Nomi Kane just finished co-editing and contributing to a new project called Peep Show. “It’s a pin-up calendar by a gaggle of Center for Cartoon Studies she-toonists. Twelve of us have created beautiful and, slightly scandalous, illustrations to enjoy every month of 2011!” You can see a preview and order a copy at Kane’s website Brew for Breakfast.

3) Jeff Turrentine tells us that he’s finished the final draft (he hopes) of his first novel. It’s called Cities of Sand, and he’s sending it out to agents now.

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1) As we reported in August, Kate Bernheimer is very busy. Here are a few updates: October 16, Boston Book Festival, fairy-tale reading and discussion with Kathryn Davis, Kelly Link, and Maria Tatar. October 27, reading from Horse, Flower, Bird at The Booksmith in San Francisco. Also on October 27: Gregory Maguire introduces My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me at New York’s Symphony Space. October 29, Antigone Books in Tucson, fairy-tale reading from My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me, with Lydia Millet, Joy Williams, Alissa Nutting, and Karen Brennan.

2) Michael Atkinson is on a panel (“Let’s Pretend We’re Strangers: Including Real People as Fictional Characters”) at Boucheron in San Francisco today. He also tells us: “New pieces in The Village Voice, The L Magazine, In These Times, IFC.com, LA Weekly and Mystery Scene!”

3) Matthew Wells‘ online reading of The Manhattan Sonnets will be streaming tomorrow morning on the New River Dramatists section of the Art International Radio site.

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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 Heti’s voice in How Should a Person Be? is utterly beguiling: blunt, charming, funny, and smart. She subtly and beautifully weaves together ideas about sex, femininity and artistic ambition. Reading this genre-defying book was pure pleasure.” The prologue to the book can be read on her website.

Heti invites S.O. readers in Toronto that day to attend the launch party on October 14th at 8 pm at Stone’s Place, 1255 Queen Street West.

2) Robert Lopez‘s new collection of stories, Asunder, is due out from Dzanc Books in November. He has stories in The Brooklyn Rail, Unsaid, and Sententia this month. On October 22nd, he’ll be reading at Issue Project Room for The Brooklyn Rail’s 10th anniversary. Old American Can Factory: 232 3rd St.

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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 Things featuring Rob Baedeker, Chris Colin, Miranda Mellis, Beth Lisick, and Katie Wiliams. PLUS: the first-ever Object Slam. Map to Venue. Confirm your attendance on Facebook!

1) Ben Katchor invites Significant Objects readers to check out the following events:

Thursday, October 7, 2010 at 7:30pm
Slideshow Lecture:
“The Great Museum Cafeterias of the Western World.”
Carleton College
Boliou Hall
1 N. College St.
Northfield, MN 55057

free and open to the public

October 8 – November 6, 2010
Group Exhibition: Ink Plots: The Tradition of the Graphic Novel at SVA
Visual Arts Gallery
601 West 26 Street, 15th floor
New York, NY 10001
212.592.2145

2) Stephen O’Connor will be reading from his new collection of stories, Here Comes Another Lesson, at the following times/places:

New York City, Thursday, October 7:
7:30 PM
Sweet! Actors Reading Writers
Three of Cups in the East Village: 83 1st Ave @ 5th St.

Brooklyn, NY, Tuesday, October 12:
8:00 PM
Reading w/ Martha Colburn & Thollem McDonas (Films & Live Music)
Issue Project Room, Old American Can Factory: 232 3rd St.
$10 ($9 advance)

Brooklyn, NY, Thursday, October 14:
Reading
Community Bookstore: 143 Seventh Avenue, Park Slope
Free

San Francisco, Saturday, October 16:
9:30 PM
Reading/Signing Writers with Drinks
Make-Out Room: 3225 22nd Street
San Francisco, California 94110

Los Angeles, Monday, October 18:
TBA
Reading/Signing Rant & Rave Reading Series
THEATRE THEATER: 5041 Pico, Los Angeles, CA
$15

Los Angeles, Tuesday, October 19:
TBA
Reading/Signing
Pilgrim School: Los Angeles (Private)

Los Angeles, Wednesday, October 20:
7:30PM
Reading/Signing
Skylight Books: 1818 N. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90027
Free

San Francisco, Thursday, October 21:
7:30PM
Reading/Signing
Booksmith: 1644 Haight Street, San Francisco, California 94117
Free

Berkeley, CA, Saturday, October 23
3:00-5:00 PM
PEN West
Margaret Schaffer’s house: 1 Quail Rd. (Private)

San Francisco, Saturday, October 23
8:00-9:30 PM
Reading/Signing (w/ Tsering Wangmo Dhompa & others) Bernal Yoga Literary Series
461 Cortland Avenue at Andover Street
Free

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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 Things featuring Rob Baedeker, Chris Colin, Miranda Mellis, Beth Lisick, and Katie Wiliams. PLUS: the first-ever Object Slam. Map to Venue. Confirm your attendance on Facebook!

1) Myla Goldberg‘s new novel, The False Friend, is being released by Doubleday on October 5, and she’s doing a number of readings. More info at her website. For example:

October 4
She’ll be the guest on the Diane Rehm show on NPR, which streams live from 11am to noon (EST).

October 6 & 7
She’ll be reading in New York.

October 9 & 10
She’ll be reading at the Wordstock Festival in Portland, OR.

October 16
She’ll be reading at the Boston Book Festival.

October 28 & 29
She’ll be reading in San Francisco.

2) Alissa Nutting‘s book of short stories, Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls, comes out on October 1st.

Nutting’s short story “Dying Is All I Think About” is in the fall issue of BOMB magazine. Her review of Gary Lutz’s I Looked Alive (Black Square Books/Brooklyn Rail, 10/1/2010) will be published by Fanzine in the coming weeks. She will be reading in NY at The Center for Fiction, Thursday, October 14th at 7pm.

3) The blog Design Observer (with whom Significant Objects partnered for a week during SOv1) has published a slideshow spotlighting S.O. coeditor Joshua Glenn’s collection of Cold War-era “X” paperbacks. Excerpt from introduction:

I started collecting Cold War-era (i.e., from the end of WWII through détente) “X” paperbacks when I was 12 years old. From the pulp fiction pile in my grandfather’s summer house in Maine, I smuggled home a 1945 Pocket Book edition of Philip MacDonald’s Warrant for X. I didn’t want to read it; I was obsessed with the free-standing “X” on its cover: two swipes of red paint topped by two narrower swipes of white. Thus rendered, the letterform struck me — though not in these terms — as the quintessential signifier of all things mysterious and dangerous, forbidden and sexy.

View Glenn’s complete “X” collection, as well as a collector’s guide, at HiLobrow.com.

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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 Things featuring Rob Baedeker, Chris Colin, Miranda Mellis, Beth Lisick, and Katie Wiliams. PLUS: the first-ever Object Slam. Map to Venue. Confirm your attendance on Facebook!

1) Shelley Jackson recently authored and illustrated a children’s book: Mimi’s Dada Catifesto.

2) Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer recently reviewed fellow S.O. author Tom McCarthy‘s C for Canada’s The Globe & Mail. Excerpt from the review:

Over and over, there is coupling, anti-erotic even in its eroticism, with Serge re-enacting his first sexual encounter — seeing, yes, as shadow play through a screen, his brilliant sister being taken from behind by his father’s friend, a decoder, whom she has essentially seduced. Or perhaps this is his second sexual encounter; the first involved Sophie tapping out a message in Morse code on his tiny penis (thrusting us and, surely, the aptly named Serge, back and forth between the electric and the erotic).

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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 Wiliams. (plus the first-ever Object Slam) at San Francisco’s Root Division. Map to Venue. Confirm your attendance on Facebook!

1) Here’s the schedule for Jonathan Lethem‘s Chronic City Paperback Tour (Fall 2010):

9/21 – Boston, MA – Newtonville Books

9/22 – New York, NY – New York Public Library

9/24 – Brooklyn, NY – PowerHouse Books

10/8 – San Francisco – SF JCC daytime event

10/8-9 – Portland, OR – Wordstock Festival

2) Jessica Helfand recently spent 10 days as artist-in-residence at The Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk, Conn. You can see the results at the “paper-obsessed” website Felt and Wire.

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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 where speech has lost its power.” Field’s book is, among other things, science translated into the discourses of poetry and theater. There is an ethical, interdisciplinary vision underlying the recursive image of a gang of students milling around Bird Lovers, Backyard, replete with notebooks and saddlebags, doing amateur science. They ask questions, connect dots—they’re a chorus.

Mellis has another review coming out in October of Danielle Dutton’s Sprawl, also in the Rail.

2) Jason Grote‘s play 1001 continues its run at Chicago’s Chopin Theater through October 11 [cast pictured above]; view the Time Out feature here. His exegesis of Silver Age comic double-entendres will be coming soon to Hilobrow.com, his short play In His Bold Gaze My Ruin Is Writ Large will be produced at New York’s Crown Point Festival, and his longer play Maria/Stuart will by read by Circle X and Bootleg Theater in Los Angeles in their Monday night series.

3) Dzanc books will publish Terese Svoboda‘s fifth novel, Pirate Talk or Mermalade, on Talk Like a Pirate Day, September 19 at the Hudson Valley Writers Center at 4 and Bluestockings at 7:30. The first chapter’s at HTML Giant. The trailer for the book is here. Svoboda is also reading at Book Court on the 21st for Dzanc Books, along with Hesh Kestin.

DON’T FORGET: On October 9th, from 6-7 p.m., as part of Litquake’s Litcrawl, SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS will present An Evening of Remarkable Stories about Unremarkable Things (plus the first-ever Object Slam) at San Francisco’s Root Division. Map to Venue.

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