This week on Page-Turner, we’ll have a series of excerpts from “Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985&#8221 translated by Martin McLaughlin. What follows is an introduction by Michael Wood, and the first ...

The just-released Italo Calvino: Letters, covering over 40 years of the acclaimed writer's life, were selected by MIchael Wood, professor of English and comparative literature at Princeton. Wood ...

This collection of five elegant essays by the Italian fiction writer offers an affecting self-portrait. (Nov.) Italo Calvino, read by John Lee. Tantor Media, unabridged, three CDs, 2.75 hrs., $19.99 ...

“Every choice has an obverse, that is to say a renunciation,” the narrator of “The Castle of Crossed Destinies,” a shapeshifting late novel by Italo Calvino, observes. If this man is right—and he ...

The summer reading I like best is either a lovely, long, fat novel to lie down with and get lost in, or a collection of stories, like a basket of summer fruit, to savour one or two at a time. Here, ...

Italo Calvino has a habit that's hard not to find disconcerting. Halfway through a story, or even a few sentences in, he often pauses — briefly, glibly — to mention in passing that everything he has ...

Who any longer remembers or broods on Italy in the 1950s and 1960s? It was the era of a severe sadness—whether in the cinema of Rossellini and Antonioni, or the artistic thinking of Alighiero Boetti, ...

At a party in London recently, an Italian man asked me what I was working on. To my reply that I was writing a review of Italo Calvino’s nonfiction, he said the mere thought of reading Calvino gave ...

DOTHAN, Ala. (WTVY) - Dothan Houston County Library System Director Chris Warren joined News4 to present June’s Chapter Chat pick. This month’s pick is If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo ...

In a lecture delivered in New York in the spring of 1983, Italo Calvino remarked that "most of the books I have written and those I intend to write originate from the thought that it will be ...

But if that does not work out, Calvino could probably just host the salons in her new three-bedroom co-op at 1150 Fifth Avenue. The apartment was converted five years ago from a classic six into its ...

"Everything can change but not the language that we carry inside us." Cuba (his father was working there at the time). University of Turin, studying lliterature and writing his thesis on Joseph Conrad ...