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Significant Objects by Joshua Glenn (2012, Trade Paperback)
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Item specifics
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- ISBN
- 9781606995259
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
ISBN-10
1606995251
ISBN-13
9781606995259
eBay Product ID (ePID)
110896954
Product Key Features
Book Title
Significant Objects
Number of Pages
232 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Anthologies (Multiple Authors), Literary
Publication Year
2012
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
21.7 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Significant Objects is an incredibly fun, if curious, success, one that toys with the disparity between an object's financial and emotional values, and speaks to our wonderfully human propensity to believe in nonsense., The short stories are lovely. Some allude to an object's brush with fame; others suggest heartache, loneliness and the occasional bar fight. Each story casts a strange spell on the objects, and on our perception of them., Significant Objects combines one of the oldest of all media -- the near-improvised short story -- with the reinvigorated writer-reader relationship afforded by Web 2.0., To those who don't believe in the transcendent power of a good story ... behold: the Significant Objects project.
Dewey Decimal
813.010806
Synopsis
The long-awaited book collection of the acclaimed online literary proseexperiment. SignificantObjects.com, founded by Joshua Glenn and RobWalker, has published an extraordinary series of 200 stories and counting-- by William Gibson, Curtis Sittenfeld, Sheila Heti, Colson Whitehead,Nicholson Baker, Meg Cabot, Gary Panter, Ben Katchor, Lydia Millet, JonathanLethem, and other talented writers -- about ordinary stuff like noveltyitems, discarded souvenirs, and tasteless kitchenware picked up cheap at thriftstores and yard sales. The goal: To see if commissioning great stories aboutthese insignificant things would increase their value -- as measured inactual eBay auctions. The experiment, in short, was a smash hit, raising moneyfor youth-tutoring organizations. Significant Objects is a hardcover collectionof the best one hundred short prose stories, published byFantagraphics., 100 EXTRAORDINARY STORIES ABOUT ORDINARY THINGS SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS: A Literary and Economic Experiment Can a great story transform a worthless trinket into a significant object? The Significant Objects project set out to answer that question once and for all, by recruiting a highly impressive crew of creative writers to invent stories about an unimpressive menagerie of items rescued from thrift stores and yard sales. That secondhand flotsam definitely becomes more valuable: sold on eBay, objects originally picked up for a buck or so sold for thousands of dollars in total -- making the project a sensation in the literary blogosphere along the way. But something else happened, too: The stories created were astonishing, a cavalcade of surprising responses to the challenge of manufacturing significance. Who would have believed that random junk could inspire so much imagination? The founders of the Significant Objects project, that's who. This book collects 100 of the finest tales from this unprecedented creative experiment; you'll never look at a thrift-store curiosity the same way again. FEATURING ORIGINAL STORIES BY: Chris Adrian - Rob Agredo - Kurt Andersen - Rachel Axler - Rob Baedeker - Nicholson Baker - Rosecrans Baldwin - Matthew Battles - Charles Baxter - Kate Bernheimer - Susanna Breslin - Kevin Brockmeier - Matt Brown - Blake Butler - Meg Cabot - Tim Carvell - Patrick Cates - Dan Chaon - Susanna Daniel - Adam Davies - Kathryn Davis - Matthew De Abaitua - Stacey - D'Erasmo - Helen DeWitt - Doug Dorst - Mark Doty - Ben Ehrenreich - Mark Frauenfelder - Amy Fusselman - William Gibson - Myla Goldberg - Ben Greenman - Jason Grote - Jim Hanas - Jennifer Michael Hecht - Sheila Heti - Christine Hill - Dara Horn - Shelley Jackson - Heidi Julavits - Ben Katchor - Matt Klam - Wayne Koestenbaum - Josh Kramer - Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer - Neil LaBute - Victor LaValle - J. Robert Lennon - Jonathan Lethem - Todd Levin - Laura Lippman - Mimi Lipson - Robert Lopez - Joe Lyons - Sarah Manguso - Merrill Markoe - Tom McCarthy - Miranda Mellis - Lydia Millet - Maud Newton - Annie Nocenti - Stephen O'Connor - Stewart O'Nan - Jenny Offill - Gary Panter - Ed Park - James Parker - Benjamin Percy - Mark Jude Poirier - Padgett Powell - Bob Powers - Todd Pruzan - Dan Reines - Nathaniel Rich - Peter Rock - Lucinda Rosenfeld - Greg Rowland - Luc Sante - R.K. Scher - Toni Schlesinger - Matthew Sharpe - Jim Shepard - David Shields - Marisa Silver - Curtis Sittenfeld - Bruce Sterling - Scarlett Thomas - Jeff Turrentine - Deb Olin Unferth - Tom Vanderbilt - Matthew J. Wells - Joe Wenderoth - Margaret Wertheim - Colleen Werthmann - Colson Whitehead - Carl Wilson - Cintra Wilson - Sari Wilson - Douglas Wolk - John Wray
LC Classification Number
PS648.S5
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