Rob Walker's Blog, page 12
August 29, 2010
Significant Tweets for Week Ending 2010-08-29
August 26, 2010
Author Updates
1. The Huffington Post recently named Andrew Ervin's debut Extraordinary Renditions one of the 15 "Most Anticipated Books for the Rest of 2010." The book will be published on Sept. 1. (Pre order from our shop.)
2. Benjamin Percy received a starred review for his debut novel, The Wilding (also in our shop) — "As close as you can get to a contemporary Deliverance." He is also profiled by Publishers Weekly here.
3. Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer has a new story about the dangers of mating with a poet, or b...
Author updates
1. The Huffington Post recently named Andrew Ervin's debut Extraordinary Renditions one of the 15 "Most Anticipated Books for the Rest of 2010." The book will be published on Sept. 1. (Pre order from our shop.)
2. Benjamin Percy received a starred review for his debut novel, The Wilding (also in our shop) — "As close as you can get to a contemporary Deliverance." He is also profiled by Publishers Weekly here.
3. Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer has a new story about the dangers of mating with a poet, or b...
August 24, 2010
Author Updates
1. William Gibson's Zero History, his tenth novel, will be released September 3 in the UK, September 7 in the US. He will be touring the US, UK and Canada during September and October.
2. Jason Grote's play 1001 will run at Chicago's Chopin Theater from Sept. 9-Oct. 9 in a production from Collaboraction. Look for the feature in Time Out.
3. Dzanc books will publish Terese Svoboda's fifth novel, Pirate Talk or Mermalade,
on Talk Like a Pirate Day, September 19 at Bluestockings. The first...
August 23, 2010
Author Updates
1) Dean Haspiel won an Emmy for Outstanding Title Design (for Bored to Death). Also, Haspiel's app/comic STREET CODE #1 launched earlier this month; and from October 2 – December 12, there will be an exhibition on the making of the graphic novel Cuba: My Revolution (by Haspiel and Inverna Lockpez) at Kentler International Drawing Space in Brooklyn.
2) Robert Lopez's new collection of stories, Asunder, is due out from Dzanc Books in November.
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August 22, 2010
Significant Tweets for Week Ending 2010-08-22
August 20, 2010
The Significant Objects Bookstore
Our shop. Click to visit. More titles added all the time.
We've just started a "bookstore" page using Amazon Associates, where we'll gradually be adding works by all of our 200+ contributors who have books for sale. To keep it from being too overwhelming, we're starting with a small number (all recent releases), and adding a few new titles every weekday, so keep an eye on it. There's a tab for the bookstore above header, and the url is: http://significantobjects.com/bookstore/.
Obviously you s...
File X
This summer, I've been scanning and posting the covers of my "File X" collection — i.e., paperback novels from the 1940s-70s the titles of which include a freestanding letter "X" — to my other website, HiLobrow.
This was intended to be a ten-part series of posts. However, in response to the demands of HiLobrow, Boing Boing and io9 readers, today I posted the eleventh in what is now a series of twenty.
Hope Significant Objects readers enjoy the gallery of pulp fiction goodness!
August 19, 2010
Author Updates
1) Kate Bernheimer has two new books out: Horse, Flower, Bird (Coffee House Press, illustrated by Rikki Ducornet), a collection of her "forceful and spirited stories that will definitely prove disturbing" (according to Library Journal Review); and she's edited My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales (Penguin Non-Classics), which includes stories by Neil Gaiman, Michael Cunningham, Kelly Link, and a number of Significant Objects authors, including Aimee Bender,
August 18, 2010
Significant Objects Meme (18)
At WIRED SCIENCE, earlier this month, science journalist Jonah Lehrer explained "something important about how the human mind calculates value."
There's now suggestive evidence that our faith in the authentic — especially when the authenticity is supported by effective marketing campaigns — is a deep-seated human instinct, which emerges at an extremely early age. Consider a clever experiment led by the psychologists Bruce Hood and Paul Bloom. The scientists tested 43 children between the...
