doorstop

This was the premise of the American systems novel, which reached its turn-of-the-century apogee in the form of panoramic doorstops by Don DeLillo, Jonathan Franzen and David Foster Wallace.

Former journalist John Ghazvinian steps into the charged arena with a doorstop of a book that promises to answer the question.

The chair in this collection has a doorstop on one foot—in one way it is very generic, but it also has this surrealist take on it.

Occasionally a pamphlet for a salsa class might be tossed on a doorstop or stuck on a pole near a bus stop.