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Author Updates

1) Sara Ryan recently wrote "Fair Trade," a story for the Welcome to Bordertown anthology forthcoming in 2011 from Random House, edited by Holly Black and Ellen Kushner. The story is in comics form with art by Dylan Meconis, with whom Ryan previously collaborated on "Click."

2) David Abrams is blogging about Fobbit, a serio-comic novel in progress about the Iraq War.

3) Ron Currie Jr.'s second novel, Everything Matters!, was released in paperback yesterday by Penguin. Everything Matters!

Significant Objects Meme (14)

The crafty blog Tigerlily Tinkering explains how to make a chuppah — the canopy under which a Jewish bride and groom stand (or, as in the photo above, sit) during their wedding ceremony — that displays significant objects between sheets of silk.

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Fourteenth in an occasional series.

Happy Aunts and Uncles Day!

From your friends at Significant Objects.

Significant Tweets for Week Ending 2010-07-25

Rachel Axler (@rachelaxler)'s play SMUDGE, which enjoyed its off-Broadway premiere this past January, was  just published by Samuel French. http://bit.ly/bqwJlS #NPR story on unpublished Kafka (http://n.pr/de0hbT) misses Monkey Puppet angle. Dara Horn story: http://bit.ly/afuxj2 #Not speaking Italian, must take Camilla's word that show "has a lot to do with S.O. Title: Every Story Has a Price." http://bit.ly/c5g3qD #The Lit Mag Adoption Program for Creative Writing Students: Our friends at @a

Author Updates

1) Rebecca Wolff has published a new issue of Fence, the biannual journal of arts and literature.

2) David Shields is finishing a biography of J.D. Salinger; the co-author is Shane Salerno. He's also finishing edits of a Norton anthology of essays about mortality by contemporary writers; the co-editor is Bradford Morrow.

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Happy Pioneer Day!

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From your friends at Significant Objects.

Significant Objects Meme (13)

"The Curious World of Patent Models" is a traveling show organized by the Rothschild Patent Model Museum. On display at the Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena through Aug. 15, 2010.

Via Core 77.

Thirteenth in an occasional series.

Author Updates

1) Kurt Andersen has a story in Stories, the new anthology of short fiction edited by Neil Gaiman & Al Sarrantonio and published by HarperCollins.

2) Merrill Markoe is an intermittent panelist on "Curb: The Discussion," a talk/analysis of Curb Your Enthusiasm hosted by Susie Essman. It airs AFTER the new syndicated run of Curb on The TV Guide Network. She is working on her new book of essays which will be out in 2011.

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Happy Moon Day!

From your friends at Significant Objects.

Check out the "UNY Story Tank" at City of Water Day in NYC, July 24

All aboard, y'all.

Our friends over at Underwater New York have yet another great event in the works:

We'll set up an audio recording station – the Story Tank – on Pier 11 beside PortSide's tanker Mary Whalen, docked in Red Hook/Atlantic Basin. Come tour the tanker, take in the watery festivities, and share your own true stories of water: fish stories, skinny dips, canoe trips, seasickness, ferry rides, waterfront walks, sunset cruises, boat-bound breakups, secrets you've shouted to the...