Leanne Shapton, a New York Times art director and main squeeze of LB Media’s ex-editorial director James Truman, offers a sardonic take on divorce — and the single-owner sales it breeds — in her faux auction catalogue, titled Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris (FSG). The slim volume, due out Valentine’s Day, offers a lot-by-lot take on a fictional relationship’s collapse — from the phone-number-emblazoned napkin that was traded at the couple’s first meeting (est. $15-20) to the stuffed squirrel (est. $50-75), left, they found while antiquing.

"Nuts to You" originally appeared in the February 2009 issue of Art+Auction. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Art+Auction's February 2009 Table of Contents.