Friday, July 10, 2009

Buy Me Now


Is this a significant object? I wrote a story about this pin as part of a project. Now, you can win the story and the pin on eBay.
A talented, creative writer invents a story about an object. Invested with new significance by this fiction, the object should -- according to our hypothesis -- acquire not merely subjective but objective value. How to test our theory? Via eBay!
Read all about it here. Relatedly, I got a mention on The New Yorker website, which was kind of awesome.