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Rob wrote a short story for the Significant Objects project — a web site started by Joshua Glenn and Rob Walker. The two gave cheap thrift store objects to writers, asked them to make up a story about the objects, then put the items (along with their stories) on eBay, to test the premise that the added story would increase the objects’ value. Rob’s story is about a porcelain figurine, pictured below. You can read and bid (on this and other objects) here.

Our friend and agent Danielle Svetcov has written a hilarious and useful book of recipes that will help you get your poo on.

If you Google “search engine,” Google comes up fourth or fifth. True. Go ahead, try it. So last week, when we visited Google SF to do a reading for their authors series, we started with some business consulting on how they might be able to improve their standing in the search and become a “top company.”

(Here it is on a bigger player on YouTube.

A couple of weeks ago, the NYT “Vows” section featured the story of Jennifer Keen and Paul Sousa, an atypical couple for the “Weddings and Celebrations” pages: they are both recovering addicts and community college students; in the photo she wears a wedding dress. He’s wearing shorts.

Yesterday, in the Times’ Public Editor section, Clark Hoyt defended the story against a contingent of readers who “regarded the weddings pages as a place for upstanding people with good educations who come from good families” and who thought these rapscallions didn’t fit in.