Calvino

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• Total World Domination (Day 3)

  
  Erik Smetana | Writer — Authority: 125
  American Short Fiction is into the third day of Laura van den Berg s blog takeover, today she discusses Italo Calvino . The dark nature of the relationship between the narrator and her brother, which is in many ways at the heart of the novel, is never addressed, never spoken of, and yet it is present on every ...
  6 days ago

• The Non-Existent Knight

  
  Atisan Novels — Authority: 106
  1. To be nothing within a closed helmet and armor is Agilulfs predicament quite unlike all the other soldiers who mostly dislike him for being a model one: he "could not know what it was like to shut the eyes, lose consciousness, plunge into emptiness for a few hours and then wake and find oneself the same as ...
  1 week ago

• 10 Awesome Books for the Readers in Your Life

  
  Flavorwire — Authority: 695
  Last week, in an effort to ease your holiday shopping, we offered you our list of the 10 best books for non-readers. But what about books for readers? Even if youre a class-A literary nerd, it can be hard to figure out what the other bookworms in your life would like best. To make matters worse, theres no room for ...
  2 weeks ago

• If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino

  
  Books of Mee — Authority: 116
  If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller is one of the weirdest books I’ve ever read. It started with you , the Reader, going to a bookshop to buy the latest book by Italo Calvino titled If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller. You go back home and start reading. The book starts with new chapter titled If On a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Film and Fiction as Partners in an Authors Literary Development (Guest Blogger Jesse Bullington)

  
  Omnivoracious — Authority: 592
  After addressing matters relating to history and historical fiction all week I would like to wrap things up today and tomorrow with a couple of posts that relate to other aspects of my writing. Being a writer, I talk a lot about other writers, especially those who have influenced my own writing. I’m surely not the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Man Promises Girlfriend $100,000 to Not Use Drugs, Hit Up the Strip Club

  
  F-Listed — Authority: 611
  …And he’s actually surprised she took him up on the offer! Find out more after the jump.
  2 weeks ago

• stung

  
  the swiss lounge — Authority: 122
  so i was wading my way through an interview with sting on the culture show the other night in which hes wittering on and on about his new folk album, his follow up to his lute album songs form the labyrinth. i have to say im not a sting fan, not from the police days and certainly not anything in between but the lute ...
  2 weeks ago

• Do you remember?

  
  Badaude — Authority: 458
  OK, a little while ago, I was telling you a story . Then I broke off for an But now Im back, and in colour... You might remember, I was living in the Last Affordable Bedsit in Islingt on, but there was someone I forgot to mention...   Check out my back issues by clicking on A little ...
  2 weeks ago

• "What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and..."

  
  La Culte de Baiser Sans Fin — Authority: 126
  “What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.” - Italo Calvino - If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller ( via dreamsofelectricsheep  : signa )
  2 weeks ago

• Reading Roundup, November 2009

  
  Bill Ward — Authority: 116
  N ovember proved an eclectic and productive reading period for me — even if I didn’t get much else done. I started things off with Italian fabulist Italo Calvino’s excellently mesmerizing Invisible Cities , a series of imaginative prose-poem meditations on memory and semiotics wrapped up in a spiraling chapter ...
  3 weeks ago

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