6: The Significant Objects book (published by Fantagraphics) comes out today–a hundred extraordinary tales about ordinary things. It’s also available as an Apple iBook.Īug. in hardcover and in audiobook now at Barnes & Noble, IndieBound, and Amazon. Lena Dunham will moderate, Sarah Vowell will introduce, and the event benefits 826NYC.
JJ and I will be discussing the book and everything that went into making it. event at Symphony Space in NYC on November 23 at 6 pm. a starred review.ġ0/30: JJ talks about the book with PBS’s Tavis Smiley.ġ0/29: CBS This Morning’s feature on JJ, Doug, and S.ġ0/28: JJ, Doug, and S.
enters the New York Times Bestseller List at #8!ġ1/6: Kirkus Reviews has a feature on Doug and S.ġ1/3: Doug joined Brad Listi for the Other People podcast.ġ0/31: Publishers Weekly gives S. project.ġ1/8: A conversation between JJ, Doug, and editor Josh Kendall is up at The Slate Book Review.ġ1/8: Neil Gaiman interviews JJ & Doug for BBC Newsnight.ġ1/6: S. are now available.ġ1/30: Doug will be on the sales floor at BookPeople in Austin from 1-2 pm today in support of IndiesFirst!ġ1/23: From The New Yorker’s Page-Turner blog: “The Story of S.: Talking with JJ Abrams and Doug Dorst.”ġ1/11: Fast Company looks at the S. Abrams and written by award-winning novelist Doug Dorst, is the chronicle of two readers finding each other in the margins of a book and enmeshing themselves in a deadly struggle between forces they don’t understand, and it is also Abrams and Dorst’s love letter to the written word.ħ/7: The Dutch and French translations of S. The readers: Jennifer and Eric, a college senior and a disgraced grad student, both facing crucial decisions about who they are, who they might become, and how much they’re willing to trust another person with their passions, hurts, and fears. The writer: Straka, the incendiary and secretive subject of one of the world’s greatest mysteries, a revolutionary about whom the world knows nothing apart from the words he wrote and the rumors that swirl around him. Straka, in which a man with no past is shanghaied onto a strange ship with a monstrous crew and launched onto a disorienting and perilous journey.
The book: Ship of Theseus, the final novel by a prolific but enigmatic writer named V.M. She responds with notes of her own, leaving the book for the stranger, and so begins an unlikely conversation that plunges them both into the unknown. Inside it are his margin notes, which reveal a reader entranced by the story and by its mysterious author. A world of mystery, menace, and desire.Ī young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger.
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