The long-awaited book collection of the acclaimed online literary proseexperiment.

SignificantObjects.com, founded by Joshua Glenn and RobWalker, has published an extraordinary series of 200 stories and counting-- by William Gibson, Curtis Sittenfeld, Sheila Heti, Colson Whitehead,Nicholson Baker, Meg Cabot, Gary Panter, Ben Katchor, Lydia Millet, JonathanLethem, and other talented writers -- about ordinary stuff like noveltyitems, discarded souvenirs, and tasteless kitchenware picked up cheap at thriftstores and yard sales. The goal: To see if commissioning great stories aboutthese insignificant things would increase their value -- as measured inactual eBay auctions. The experiment, in short, was a smash hit, raising moneyfor youth-tutoring organizations. Significant Objects is a hardcover collectionof the best one hundred short prose stories, published byFantagraphics.