IN THIS UPDATE: Sheila Heti, Robert Lopez. 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 … Continue reading
IN THIS POST: Jason Grote, J. Robert Lennon, Helen DeWitt, Greg Rowland, Ed Park. *** This is the ninth installment in a series of twenty posts announcing — in no particular order — which 100 stories will be collected in … Continue reading
Big thanks to all who came out to our Litquake / Lit Crawl event at Root Division! Thanks also to all our participating writers, and supsersize thanks to Rob Baedeker for hosting duties, and for wearing a super-suede suit! We’ll … Continue reading
Let me say it again with the right hashtag: Our first ever live event TONIGHT, part of @litquake. Details: http://bit.ly/dtAM6f #LitCrawl # Our first ever live event TONIGHT, part of @litquake. Details: http://bit.ly/dtAM6f #litquake # "4" Angel + Story by … Continue reading
You must attend the first-ever S.O. live event! Reading live (in alphabetical order): Rob Baedeker, Chris Colin, Beth Lisick, Miranda Mellis, and Katie Williams. Followed by the first-ever Object slam, your chance to invent Significance for an object to be … Continue reading
That’s right, readers. Starting in a matter of hours we’ll publishing one all-new Significant Objects story each day this week, all leading up to the first-ever S.O. live event, in San Francisco. Please alert your friends! Our contributors this time … Continue reading
NYC folks: Go to the release event for @jimhanas collection “Why They Cried.” http://bit.ly/a60jvy Sounds fun! # Very large book cover archive: http://bookcoverarchive.com/ # New Republic looking for “literary intern.” http://bit.ly/cDFWzT # Books added to our “store” all the time. … Continue reading
We love to give regular updates about the doings of all our contributors, but this might be a first. Jim Hanas’ new book Why They Cried, a collection of stories, may be the first such item to include a Significant … Continue reading
IN THIS POST: Kathryn Davis, Jonathan Lethem, Joe Lyons, Jim Shepard, Jennifer Michael Hecht. 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: … Continue reading
IN THIS UPDATE: Ben Katchor, Stephen O’Connor. 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 … Continue reading
Lyall Watson was a South African-born botanist, zoologist, biologist, anthropologist, zoo keeper and BBC presenter who wrote Supernature: A Natural History of the Supernatural (1973), among other popular books that helped usher in the Seventies’ New Age trend. Among other … Continue reading
IN THIS POST: Margaret Wertheim, Lydia Millet, Lucinda Rosenfeld, Luc Sante, Kevin Brockmeier. 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 … Continue reading
The first-ever Significant Objects live event, part of Litquake in San Francisco, will of course include fantastic all-new stories, read live by five of our esteemed contributors, breathing fresh Significance into a new batch of objects hand-picked by this project’s … Continue reading
IN THIS UPDATE: Myla Goldberg, Alissa Nutting, Joshua Glenn. 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 … Continue reading
“Bookshelf” wallpaper. http://tumblr.com/xr4jpdjmr # Fun interview by Paola Antonelli w/ S.O. co-founder Rob Walker includes nice mention our project, plus a bunny picture. http://bit.ly/a9Tlbl # iPad app based on typewriter. http://bit.ly/dDi2ct # “The strange afterlife of authors’ book collections,” Boston … Continue reading
IN THIS POST: Matthew Sharpe, Matthew J. Wells, Matt Brown, Mark Jude Poirier, Mark Frauenfelder. 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 … Continue reading
IN THIS UPDATE: Shelley Jackson, Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer. 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 … Continue reading
