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    Significant Objects (Paperback) Edited by Joshua Glenn, Edited by Rob Walker

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    Short Description for Significant Objects The results of a literary experiment in which a best-selling or popular author wrote a short fictional prose story about an object on eBay, thus raising its value. Writers include William Gibson, Curtis Sittenfeld, Colson Whitehead, Nicholson Baker, Meg Cabot and more.
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  • 100 EXTRAORDINARY STORIES ABOUT ORDINARY THINGSSIGNIFICANT OBJECTS: A Literary and Economic ExperimentCan 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