Houston high school library throws out books, makes way for coffee and couches. http://tumblr.com/xr4yw2fbc # Rosemary Williams documents everything she owns, in "Belongings." http://tumblr.com/xr4yw2dkd # "Tongue" bookmark: http://tumblr.com/xr4yvjvdq # Claim: "Amazon's amateur book-reviewing becomes vicious free-for-all." http://tumblr.com/xr4yv6do2 # A book … Continue reading
BoingBoing finds "delightful" science fiction story lurking in a review of $6800 speaker cable http://t.co/6oF85GN # Intel commissions futuristic stories for internal planning; "unique literary project" – Boing Boing http://t.co/M8lllTY # Photographer Hong Hao's "My Things" project, arranging 20 years … Continue reading
Rob Walker’s Unconsumption tumblr recently mentioned PASS THE BATON, a Japanese on- and offline retail concept that updates the thrift store experience by adding — yes, you guessed it! — meaningful narrative to castoff items. *** For more evidence of the … Continue reading
… from your friends at Significant Objects.
'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
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
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
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
I feel like the New York Times Magazine invented this feature — the annotated photograph of someone’s den, telling stories about their significant objects — but here’s an example of the genre from Seed Magazine that I came across the … Continue reading
"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
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
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
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
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
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
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
IN THIS POST: Stephen O’Connor, Colson Whitehead, Shelley Jackson, Scarlett Thomas, Nicholson Baker. This is the fourteenth installment in a series of twenty posts announcing — in no particular order — which 100 stories will be collected in the Significant … Continue reading
RT @YoungAmerican S.O. contributor Todd Levin on Jordan, Jesse, Go http://bit.ly/aSEVSe # Via @nprnews: Sci-Fi’s Cory Doctorow Separates Self-Publishing Fact From Fiction | http://t.co/zy84Q3t # Stuff found in used books, collected and blogged: http://www.forgottenbookmarks.com/ # 50 most hated characters in … Continue reading
