[The auction on this Significant Object, with story by Mimi Lipson, has ended. Original price: 39 cents. Final price: $31.] From AW: The Lost Diaries Wednesday, June 13, 1979 Halston was having a birthday party for the Dupont twins, so … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Claire Zulkey, has ended. Original price: 50 cents. Final price: $5.50.] Apparently, people collect these things. I’m not sure I understand why. Is it for the candy? I find that hard to believe. There are … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Kurt Andersen, has closed. Original price: $2. Final price: $15.50.] Although I live now in Indianapolis, I grew up in Gas City, which is a town (not a city) about an … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Lizzie Skurnick, has closed. Original price: $1. Final price: $11.50.] When I was four I thought it was a periscope, or what I thought at the time was called a periscope. … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Susannah Breslin, has ended. Original price: 50 cents. Final price: $36.88] I reached my hand into the drawer, withdrew it, and looked at what lay in my palm. “ALL AMERICAN OFFICIAL … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Jonathan Goldstein, has ended. Original price: $2. Final price: $6.25.] Twenty years after the man’s death, I still can’t rightly say whether my uncle Dwayne was a benevolent old-timey Grandpa Walton … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Jenny Davidson, has ended. Original price: 12 cents. Final price: $3.58.] I blame it on the book: a pocket-sized lined notebook with a black matte cover, bound at the left-hand margin … Continue reading
[The bidding on this Significant Object, with story by Lydia Millet, has ended. Original price: 50 cents. Final price: $22.72.] I went with my friend G to her great aunt’s house a few weeks after the aunt passed away. G … Continue reading
[Bidding on this Significant Object, with story by Annie Nocenti, has ended. Original price: $2.99. Final price: $26.] I’m long off the vine. Eighty, truth be told. I refuse to be one of those biddies that dies with clutter. Found … Continue reading
[Bidding on this Significant Object, with story by Lucinda Rosenfeld, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $26.] My grandmother, Zippy Friedman, was an administrator at Austen Riggs Psychiatric Hospital in Stockbridge, MA, for several decades beginning in the 1950s. … Continue reading
