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Is there a ""Rosebud"" object in your past? A long-vanished thing that lingers in your memory-whether you want it to or not? As much as we may treasure the stuff we own, perhaps just as significant are the objects we have, in one way or another, lost. What is it about these bygone objects? Why do they continue to haunt us long after they've vanished from our lives? InLost Objects, editors Joshua Glenn and Rob Walker have gathered answers to those questions in the form of 50 true stories from a dazzling roster of writers, artists, thinkers, and storytellers, including Lucy Sante, Ben Katchor, Lydia Millet, Neil LaBute, Laura Lippman, Geoff Manaugh, Paola Antonelli, Margaret Wertheim, and many more. Each spins a unique narrative that tells a personal tale, and dives into the meaning of objects that remain present to us emotionally, even after they have physically disappeared. To bring this collection of essays even more vividlyto life, the editors gathered a similarly impressive array of artists to illustrate these meaningful things that have gone missing. Visual contributors include Seth, Kate Bingaman-Burt, Oliver Munday, Lisa Congdon, Matt Wuerker, Anita Kunz, Alex Eben Meyer, Gary Panter, and Kelli Anderson. Glenn and Walker began Lost Objects following the success of Significant Objects, they have shifted to nonfiction narratives in their continuing exploration of objects and meaning. Supplemented by additional analyses from the editors and an original foreword from noted design writer Debbie Millman, the book combines evocative storytelling, art, and design, rewarding deep readers and visual thinkers alike. We have all lost something that was meaningful-and that we'll never forget. While we may never recover this Rosebud,Lost Objectswill teach us something new about why it mattered in the first place, and matters still.

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Nothing is worse than losing a prized possession. Nothing is better than reading witty, intelligent, elegant writers elegizing and celebrating those prizes. --Steven Heller, design author and co-chair SVA MFA design program This ridiculously entertaining book performs a neat conjuring trick. You will find your own lost objects flying back to you as you read about other people's dearly departed things. The conceit is ingenious and the beautiful illustrations make each writer's rosebud flare into radiant life again.--Jenny Offill, author, Dept. of Speculation and Weather.

"""Nothing is worse than losing a prized possession. Nothing is better than reading witty, intelligent, elegant writers elegizing and celebrating those prizes."" - Steven Heller, design author and co-chair SVA MFA design program ""This ridiculously entertaining book performs a neat conjuring trick. You will find your own lost objects flying back to you as you read about other people's dearly departed things. The conceit is ingenious and the beautiful illustrations make each writer's ""rosebud"" flare into radiant life again."" - Jenny Offill, author, Dept. of Speculation and Weather."

Nothing is worse than losing a prized possession. Nothing is better than reading witty, intelligent, elegant writers elegizing and celebrating those prizes. - Steven Heller, design author and co-chair SVA MFA design program This ridiculously entertaining book performs a neat conjuring trick. You will find your own lost objects flying back to you as you read about other people's dearly departed things. The conceit is ingenious and the beautiful illustrations make each writer's rosebud flare into radiant life again. - Jenny Offill, author, Dept. of Speculation and Weather.

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Joshua Glennis a consulting semiotician and coauthor ofThe Adventurer's Glossary,Unbored: The Essential Field Guide to Serious Fun, and (with Rob Walker)Significant Objects, among other books. He is editor of HILOBROW.com and the MIT Press' Radium Age series. Follow him via Instagram: @hilobrow. Rob Walkeris the author ofThe Art of Noticingand its spinoff newsletter, at robwalker.substack.com. His prior books areSignificant Objects(with Joshua Glenn),Buying In, andLetters from New Orleans. He is a longtime contributor toThe New York Timesand teaches at the School of Visual Arts. More at robwalker.net.

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