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  • "The best pizza I ever had was at Calvino's," Monica proclaimed breathlessly.

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  • It even provides Amazon ranking numbers to show that Peyton Place still outsells Faulkner's The Town and Calvino's The Baron in the Trees (both from roughly the same era).

    Writing and Publishing 2010

  • 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

  • He ordered a pizza, but it wasn't from Calvino's so it was only mildly awesome.

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  • What surprises me most about the Literary Saloon's ruminations on this subject, however, is this disturbing claim: Yes, we like Calvino's The Baron in the Trees better than Peyton Place, and think it's far superior, but even we would recommend a publisher publish (or re-publish) the Metalious-title before they tackle the Calvino.

    Writing and Publishing 2010

  • They went to Calvino's and had the best pizza in the world.

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  • In that case, Mr. Wylie succeeded in getting the late author's longtime Italian publisher, Einaudi, to revert the rights to all of Calvino's titles, and with the support of the author's widow resold them, along with a bundle of unpublished work, to a different house.

    After Years of Pursuit, Wylie Signs Updike 2010

  • In that case, Mr. Wylie succeeded in getting the late author's longtime Italian publisher, Einaudi, to revert the rights to all of Calvino's titles, and with the support of the author's widow resold them, along with a bundle of unpublished work, to a different house.

    After Years of Pursuit, Wylie Signs Updike 2010

  • This post has provoked much new thinking - it reminded me of one of my most favourite books Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities And your thinking about cities and change made me wonder if we could look on a smaller scale at the institutional buildings of schools in this way - what advantages would living within an expectation of impermanence bring to the intransigence of thought in education.

    Istanbul v2.0 2008

  • Yet Calvino's novel is unified by his own playful presence.

    Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 2010

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