1) Dean Haspiel won an Emmy for Outstanding Title Design (for Bored to Death). Also, Haspiel’s app/comic STREET CODE #1 launched earlier this month; and from October 2 – December 12, there will be an exhibition on the making of … Continue reading
How to turn a book into a book rack. http://tumblr.com/xr4gfwuwr # "Odd website where people photograph themselves feeding food to inanimate objects." http://bit.ly/9qlWiq # Atlantic on book about pre-Kindle "reading revolution," The Book In The Renaissance. http://bit.ly/bmTHov # Salvation Army … Continue reading
We’ve just started a “bookstore” page using Amazon Associates, where we’ll gradually be adding works by all of our 200+ contributors who have books for sale. To keep it from being too overwhelming, we’re starting with a small number (all … Continue reading
1) Kate Bernheimer has two new books out: Horse, Flower, Bird (Coffee House Press, illustrated by Rikki Ducornet), a collection of her “forceful and spirited stories that will definitely prove disturbing” (according to Library Journal Review); and she’s edited My … Continue reading
1) Matthew Sharpe has a novel, You Were Wrong, coming out in a few weeks from Bloomsbury. Check out Sharpe’s website, on which you’ll find, among other things, videos exploring key themes and locations in the novel. Its first two … Continue reading
Objects with “no physical use-value” but that serve “cognitive” needs. http://tumblr.com/xr4fv1wi7 # How to “upcycle” a book into a planter. http://tumblr.com/xr4fuwiug # Smithsonian videos of old “animated” books, via Boingboing. http://tumblr.com/xr4fug4lg # The 15 Most Overrated Contemporary American Writers by … Continue reading
1) On August 24, Scott Jacobson and some friends — including Significant Objects contributor Todd Levin — are publishing a humor book, SEX: Our Bodies, Our Junk (Random House). Art is by Robert Sikoryak, and the graphics minds from The … Continue reading
Speaking of Rosecrans Baldwin‘s new novel You Lost Me There, it turns out our friends over at Coudal did the trailer, above. Coudal explains the team-up: [Mr. Baldwin] wanted to use the prologue to the book and tracked down a … Continue reading
From your friends at Significant Objects.
*** From your friends at Significant Objects.
1) Rosecrans Baldwin‘s first novel, You Lost Me There, is coming out from Riverhead on August 12. 2) Susanna Daniel‘s first novel, Stiltsville (HarperCollins), is coming out in August, too. She’ll be reading in the Midwest and in Florida, where … Continue reading
Book Sculpture by Federico Uribe http://tumblr.com/xr4fa2wvp # “Copyright free books summarized w/ Word 2008’s AutoSummarize 10-sentence function.”: http://tumblr.com/xr4f9ujho # 1940’s Seaman’s Savings Bank. So cool. I’d love to read a story about it! http://tumblr.com/xr4f9ug70 # S.O. contributor Michael Atkinson 8/13 … Continue reading
From your friends at Significant Objects.
1) Andrew Ervin published a story in Monkeybicycle last month, and — looking ahead — his first book, Extraordinary Renditions (Coffee House Press), will be out in September. 2) On August 4, Rebecca Coffey‘s flash piece, “From the Notebook of … Continue reading
We’re thrilled to report that a novel by one of our authors — Tom McCarthy — was included on the Man Booker Prize 2010 longlist. That novel is titled C. According to the Booker website, C follows the short, intense … Continue reading
Mulling “cover” design for ebooks. http://tumblr.com/xr4epbifu # “Art” of filling a bookshelf entails “a lamp, a sailboat and a few small pictures.” http://tumblr.com/xr4ekuh2z # Latest on the Salinger bio co-written by S.O. contributor David Shields: http://bit.ly/b3A2rg # Concord Free Press’s … Continue reading
*** From your friends at Significant Objects.
1) Stephen O’Connor’s collection of stories, Here Comes Another Lesson, will be published on August 3rd by Free Press. Most of the publication-related events will occur in September. Click here to read advance reviews. 2) Stewart O’Nan is editing his … Continue reading
