Joshua Glenn is editor of the website HiLobrow; in the '90s he
published the independent zine/journal Hermenaut. He's co-authored
and co-edited several books, including The Idler's Glossary, The
Wage Slave's Glossary, and the kids' field guide to life Unbored
(October 2012). In 2011, he produced a brainteaser iPhone app,
KER-PUNCH!. In 2012, HiLoBooks will serialize and reissue six
overlooked classics of science fiction. He lives in Boston.
Rob Walker contributes to The New York Times Magazine and Design
Observer, among others. He is the author of Buying In: The Secret
Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are, and Letters from New
Orleans. More at www.robwalker.net.
Jonathan Lethem is the author of six novels, including the
bestsellers The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn, which
won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He lives in Brooklyn
and Maine. Gary Panter has lived in Brooklyn since 1985. A
multimedia/fine artist, his pioneering, post-underground comix work
helped define the alternative comics movement in venues such as
Raw, and his aesthetic remains influential. He is a Cullman Study
Center fellow and a recipient of a Daimler/Chrysler design award
and a Pollock/Krasner Foundation grant. He also has three Emmys for
his design work on the classic PeeWee's Playhouse television
series. William Gibson is a professor of ecclesiastical history at
Oxford Brookes University. He is also academic director of the
Westminster Institute of Education. KURT ANDERSEN is a novelist
(Heyday, Turn of the Century) and journalist (Studio 360).
Meg Cabot is an American author of romantic and paranormal fiction
for teens and adults and used to write under several pen names, but
now writes exclusively under her real name, Meg Cabot. She has
written and published over fifty books, including The Princess
Diaries.
Mark Frauenfelder is a blogger, illustrator, and journalist. He is
editor-in-chief of MAKE magazine and co-editor of the collaborative
weblog Boing Boing.
Sheila Heti is the author of several books of fiction and
nonfiction, including How Should a Person Be?, which New York
Magazine deemed one of the "New Classics of the 21st century. She
was named one of The New Vanguard by The New York Times book
critics, who, along with a dozen other magazines and newspapers,
chose Motherhood as a top book of 2018. Her books have been
translated into twenty-one languages. Shelley Jackson is a writer
and artist known for her cross-genre experiments, including her
groundbreaking work of hyperfiction, Patchwork Girl (1995). In
2006, Jackson published her first novel, Half Life.
Heidi Julavits is an American author and co-editor of The Believer
magazine.
Neil LaBute is an American film director, screenwriter and
playwright.
Tom McCarthy is a writer and artist. He was born in London in 1969
and lives in central London.
Lydia Millet won the 2003 PEN-USA Award for her third novel, My
Happy Life, and her short story collection Love in Infant Monkeys
was one of three finalists for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize. Curtis
Sittenfeld is the author of the bestselling novels American Wife,
Prep, and The Man of My Dreams, which are being translated into
twenty-five languages.
Michael Bruce Sterling is an American science fiction author, best
known for his novels and his work on the Mirrorshades anthology,
which helped define the cyberpunkgenre.
Finding magic in unexpected things.-- "NPR's All Things
Considered"
Like a Salvation Army staffed by brilliant writers...--
"GalleyCat"
One of the most life-affirmingly cheeky studies I have seen for
ages.-- "The Guardian"
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.-- "The Independent of London's
Couch Surfer"
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.-- "GOOD Magazine"
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.-- "The Economist's More Intelligent Life"
To those who don't believe in the transcendent power of a good
story ... behold: the Significant Objects project.-- "AdWeek.com"
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