Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press, 2007. FINE softcover in pictorial wraps, as issued. First Softcover Edition, First Printing. As new. Pristine.

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Title: Taking Things Seriously: 75 Objects with Unexpected Significance
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Publication Date: 2007
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1568986904
ISBN 13: 9781568986906
Binding: paperback
Edition: First Edition.
Condition: Like New
Weight: 11 ounces

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'Taking Things Seriously' is a wonder cabinet of seventy-five unlikely thingamajigs that have been invested with significance and transformed into totems, talismans, charms, relics, and fetishes: scraps of movie posters scavenged from the streets of New York by Low Life author Luc Sante; the World War I helmet that inoculated social critic Thomas Frank against jingoism; the trash-picked, robot-shaped hairdo machine described by its owner as a chick magnet; the bagel burned by actor Christopher Walken while moonlighting as a short-order cook. The owners of these objects convey their excitement in short, often poignant essays that invite readers to participate in the enjoyable act of interpreting things.

About the Author

Joshua Glenn is a Boston-based writer and editor at The Boston Globe.

Carol Hayes is an award-winning designer and artist. She lives in

Brooklyn.

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