Italo Calvino

Seeking a change of pace, I read Rafael Reig's Blood on the Saddle, a novel that could be described as Italo Calvino rewritten by Elmore Leonard.

Archive 2006-06-01 2006

Seeking a change of pace, I read Rafael Reig's Blood on the Saddle, a novel that could be described as Italo Calvino rewritten by Elmore Leonard.

Blood on the Saddle 2006

Freud's Alphabet is an allusive, entertaining paradox, reminiscent of writers such as Italo Calvino, Donald Barthelme, and Walter Abish, but finding its own path forward.

Vertigo: Collecting & Reading W.G. Sebald 2009

Italo Calvino, “Conscience,” in Numbers in the Dark, trans.

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

As Italo Calvino said: "The tale isn't beautiful until you add to it."

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang flies again 2011

At first I saw it in the light of Italo Calvino's fantastical fable, "The Nonexistent Knight and The Cloven Viscount."

David Kersh: Modern Day Judaism As A Math Problem David Kersh 2012

Italo Calvino, “Conscience,” in Numbers in the Dark, trans.

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

And who else could be the favorite actress of John Dillinger, FDR and Italo Calvino?

The Queen of Comity Alexandra Mullen 2011

I always like to catch up on old newspapers and I can always be found with a copy of Shakespeare or Borges—I must have read Borges 1,000 times—or something by Italo Calvino.

Piero Lissoni Designs an Ideal Weekend Natalia Rachlin 2011

Another good collection is "Love Stories," edited by Diana Secker Tesdell, 19 short stories by an international cast of writers, including Guy de Maupassant, Italo Calvino, Roald Dahl and Lorrie Moore.

The Best Love Stories Cynthia Crossen 2011