{"product_id":"significant-objects","title":"Significant Objects","description":"\u003cp\u003eCollects the results of a literary experiment in which a bestselling or popular author wrote a short fictional prose story about an object on eBay, raising its value; the profit from the objects sale then went to charity.Please note: In the spirit of discovery that the book promotes, this product has two different jackets (pink or blue) pictured above. The customer will be shipped at random and will not be able to specify one jacket or the other.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, thats who. This book collects 100 of the finest tales from this unprecedented creative experiment; youll never look at a thriftstore 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  DErasmo  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 OConnor  Stewart ONan  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 Full color throughout\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brand: Fantagraphics","offers":[{"title":"Grote, Jason \/ paperback","offer_id":47834943455477,"sku":"SONG1606995251","price":124.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/5804\/8501\/files\/81ipmjSfCFL.jpg?v=1773671866","url":"https:\/\/ergodebooks.com\/products\/significant-objects","provider":"Ergodebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}