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It might get better sooner than we think - Times Online

It might get better sooner than we think
Times Online, UK - Dec 31, 2008
My favourite prospectus for the future is Six Memos for the Next Millennium, written by the Italian author Italo Calvino just before he died in 1985. ...

Books to look out for in 2009 - New Statesman

New Statesman

Books to look out for in 2009
New Statesman, UK - 3 hours ago
Any mention of Italo Calvino is cause for celebration, so it is gratifying to see that his works will be republished as Penguin Modern Classics in May. ...

Words, words, words - Ars Technica

Ars Technica

Words, words, words
Ars Technica, MA - Dec 22, 2008
Pretty as word clouds are, they always remind me of a satirical passage from Italo Calvino's masterful novel If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, ...

Favorite Books 2008 - OUPblog

Favorite Books 2008
OUPblog, New York - Dec 23, 2008
Abby Gross, Associate Editor, Brain and Behavioral Sciences: I courted Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler at my neighborhood bookstore for ...

Book Bag: Even Santa is juggling the books this year - Catonsville View

Catonsville View

Book Bag: Even Santa is juggling the books this year
Catonsville View, MD - Dec 18, 2008
By turns playful and uncanny, "Homage to Czerny" will appeal to fans of literary fabulists like Italo Calvino and Alfredo Bioy Casares. ...

Gamasutra's Best Of 2008: Top 10 Games Of The Year - Gamasutra

Gamasutra's Best Of 2008: Top 10 Games Of The Year
Gamasutra, CA - Dec 23, 2008
from Italo Calvino's "The Distance of the Moon," the short story that inspired I Wish I Were The Moon. N+ (Metanet/Slick, Xbox 360): Delightfully ...

The alchemist - The Australian

The alchemist
The Australian, Australia - Dec 19, 2008
Included in the list are men (they're all men) such as Italo Calvino, Constantine Cavafy, Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, Marcel Proust, Osip Mandelstam, ...

The Nobel laureate as Martian - guardian.co.uk

guardian.co.uk

The Nobel laureate as Martian
guardian.co.uk, UK - Dec 19, 2008
I remember when Italo Calvino did the same kind of thing 12 years later in If on a Winter's Night a Traveller ... I lost my patience and didn't read him for ...

The lifelong reading spree that inspires my world - Times Online

The lifelong reading spree that inspires my world
Times Online, UK - Dec 15, 2008
There's a fascinating book by Italo Calvino called The Baron in the Trees. It's the story of a 12-year-old boy who decides to leave home after the parents ...

Come out of the Literary Closet: Buy *Yourself* a Kid's Book this ... - Huffington Post

Come out of the Literary Closet: Buy *Yourself* a Kid's Book this ...
Huffington Post, NY - Dec 22, 2008
Professor Martino now teaches Cervantes and Italo Calvino by day and by night devours Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Brian Selznick's The ...

Italo Calvino - Google News