About Rob Walker

Rob Walker is the author of Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are, and writes the Consumed column for The New York Times Magazine.

Project update

Aggregate cost of objects, sold so far: $20.53 Aggregate sales, post-Significance: $329.33 Coming up this week: Sara Ryan’s story will go up this afternoon. Stories of objects by Bruce Sterling, Rob Baedecker of Kasper Hauser, and more, coming soon. Still … Continue reading

Project update

Aggregate cost of objects, sold so far:         $15.40 Aggregate sales, post-Significance:           $247.30 Coming up this week: Stories of objects by Curtis Sittenfeld, Stewart O’Nan, and (later today) Todd Pruzan, among others. Still on auction: You’ve got … Continue reading