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Author Updates
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
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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
Significant Tweets for Week Ending 2010-11-21
'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
S.O. Book News
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
Author Updates
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
S.O. Book News
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
Author Updates
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
S.O. Book News
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
Significant Tweets for Week Ending 2010-11-14
"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
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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
Another author meets an object made Significant
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
The Object Whisperers
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
S.O. Book News
IN THIS POST: Tom McCarthy, Nathaniel Rich, Merrill Markoe, Matthew De Abaitua, and Matthew Battles. This is the sixteenth installment in a series of twenty posts announcing — in no particular order — which 100 stories will be collected in … Continue reading
Author Updates
IN THIS UPDATE: Miranda Mellis 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 … Continue reading
Author Updates
IN THIS UPDATE: Toni Schlesinger, Ed Park. 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 … Continue reading
Significant Tweets for Week Ending 2010-11-07
More new titles added to our Book Shop: https://significantobjects.com/bookstore/ # Unusual vintage laboratory photos – Boing Boing http://t.co/oZdgetO [Is Josh's latest VISTA contraption depicted here? Perhaps, perhaps.] # Horribly disfigured porcelain dolls – Boing Boing http://t.co/hqh9Zc9 # Book cover postcards: … Continue reading
S.O. Book News
IN THIS POST: Heidi Julavits, Gary Panter, William Gibson, Victor Lavalle, Tom Vanderbilt. This is the fifteenth installment in a series of twenty posts announcing — in no particular order — which 100 stories will be collected in the Significant … Continue reading
