It might get better sooner than we think Times Online, UK - 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. ... |
![]() New Statesman | Books to look out for in 2009 New Statesman, UK - 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. ... |
![]() Ars Technica | Words, words, words Ars Technica, MA - 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, New York - 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 ... |
![]() Catonsville View | Book Bag: Even Santa is juggling the books this year Catonsville View, MD - 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, CA - 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, Australia - Included in the list are men (they're all men) such as Italo Calvino, Constantine Cavafy, Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, Marcel Proust, Osip Mandelstam, ... |
![]() guardian.co.uk | The Nobel laureate as Martian guardian.co.uk, UK - 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, UK - 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, NY - 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 ... |