[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Jonathan Lethem, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $76.] Listen, friend, forget about the bartender, you could wait all day in this dive, we might as well be invisible over … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Victor LaValle, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $51.99.] Who the hell goes to Portugal? In my family? The question arose as my sister and I were going through my … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Ben Ehrenreich, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $50.] I pull a marble from your skull each time we kiss. “Give it back,” you say, each time. “Darling,” I say. … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Naomi Novik, has ended. Original price: $3. Final price: $31. ] Found at the base of a street lamp near Madison Square Park, beneath a rain-bleached photocopy with a picture of … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Teddy Wayne, has ended. Original price: 50 cents. Final price: $20.50.] At the Ramada Hotel and Conference Center Qualcomm Stadium San Diego, on a June weekend in 2007, eighty-two men and … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Michael Atkinson, has ended. Original price: 34 cents. Final price: $21.50. ] … Somebody’s grandfather’s pipe stand, back when men smoked pipes that they cared to buy handcrafted out of specific … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by William Gibson, has ended. Original price: $2.99. Final price: $101.00] In 1969 my friend’s dad was a Pentagon technocrat. My friend said that when his dad came home with a new … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Ben Katchor, has ended. Original price: 50 cents. Final price: $42.] This beautiful, but slightly worn, example of early 20th century porcelain “bookware” was manufactured and distributed free-of-charge along with newly … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Laura Lippman, has ended. Original price: $2. Final price: $45.01.] Her husband saved everything. He had a box, for example, of cigarette lighters, useless plugs taken from every car he had … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by David Shields, has ended. Original price: 33 cents. Final price: $21.50.] The Mute World War II Airman ROYAL AIR FORCE (RAF) MEDICAL CHIEF All war pilots will inevitably break down in … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Myla Goldberg, has closed. Original price: 50 cents. Final price: $36. ] This is not a toy. Only the young or the hopelessly commonsensical dip it into liquid soap, content with bubbles. Curl … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Aimee Bender, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $36.] When I was twelve, many decades ago, I was at a beachfront store in San Diego, one of those towns that … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Sari Wilson, has ended. Original price: $3. Final price: $31.] It’s incongruous. The buttery finish, the fluted spout, the air hole in the back of its head offering a peek into … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Todd Levin, has ended. Original price: $2. Final price: $50.] Have you ever hated someone solely for her dumb benevolence? For bland and witless good cheer? It’s the lowest of unfair … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Colson Whitehead, has ended. Original price: 33 cents. Final price: $71.] On September 16th, 2031 at 2:35 am, a temporal rift – a “tear” in the very fabric of time and … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Toni Schlesinger, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $88.] “I have something for you,” she says. “For me?” he asks. “For you!” she says. “Wait, waiter, I’ll have a pale … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Jessica Helfand, has ended. Original price: 50 cents. Final price: $24. This story was part of a special collaboration with Design Observer, where it was co-published here.] Harriet squeezed the last … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Tom Vanderbilt, has ended. Original price: 75 cents. Final price: $37. This story was part of a special collaboration with Design Observer, where it was co-published here.] If he had a … Continue reading
