Sad to see that a film about an environmentalist uses AI (utterly unnecessarily), damaging the very environment its subject wanted to protect. (It's also very creepy, giving the faces an off-puttingly uncanny quality).

'Delve into the life of scientist Eva Mameli Calvino, Italy’s first botanist and environmentalist. Explore her life as a scholar and dreamer, her discoveries and challenges, and her life as a woman and mother of the great writer Italo Calvino.' letterboxd.com/film/eve-of-...

I just realized Granta has a collection of stories on their site. Cute 1 pager from Italo Calvino: "There was once a country where everyone was a thief. At night each inhabitant went out armed with a crowbar and a lantern, and broke into a neighbour’s house..." granta.com/the-black-sh...

Happy New Year to all Calvino fans. I hope you all find something new and delightful in in his work this year.

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, said “Just a moment, I’ve almost finished If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino.”

Merry Christmas to all this account's followers. I hope you all have a wonderful day.

Do you have any interesting, unusual or favourite Calvino editions or volumes? Post a picture of them! #postyourCalvino

Por que Ler Os Clássicos - Italo Calvino

That's a somewhat...odd cover, I have to say.

Definitely a book to be experienced, but it is fun to see/examine how it's structured... a place and architecture in its own right!

As a species we have done nothing to deserve Calvino. He’s like David Bowie or Édouard Manet or Brunelleschi…from some other universe of vision and talent.

For fun - what are your top 3 Calvino works?

"Literature – even though people usually study it author by author – is always a dialog amongst many voices which intersect and reply to each other within literature and outside it." – Italo Calvino

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Birds Are Liars, the debut short story collection by podcast contributor Bernadette McBride, is now available! It comes highly recommended by several esteemed writers (as well as by me) and includes a nod to Calvino, so listeners to the podcast should pick it up.

'Wow! A day with a great medieval series from the 1990s, based on the story by Italo Calvino! Let's enjoy a festive Sunday with The Cave of the Golden Rose on Twitch!' (thanks Google translate).

One can think of Gulliver's Travels; Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; the Alice books; the scientific romances; and then of course, some of the greatest works of 20th century fiction like Brave New World and 1984, not to mention the novels of Kafka, Calvino, Borges and so on.

AI43 Winner ADA ZEJUN SHEN @ada_zshen @svanyc.bsky.social @svaillocomx Illustrating the queen of birds in her concealed land full of plants and creatures that didn't evolve into being. From Italo Calvino The Complete Cosmicomics chapter Origin of the Birds. #artwork #illustration #illustrator

Calvino's still got it.

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for spooky season this year I wrote about Italo Calvino's remarkable 1967 lecture "Cybernetics and Ghosts", wherein he speculates about whether a machine could ever write great literature. joelgustafson.com/posts/2025-1...

"The Black Sheep", short story by Italo Calvino. granta.com/the-black-sh...

I have deleted the podcast from Spotify due to my disagreement with the way the platform's profits are being used. As soon as I have a new host set up I will put it here. Transcripts of the scripted episodes remain on the podcast's WordPress.

Critics praised his ingenuity, blending folk tales, social allegories, and modern fables in works like "Cosmicomics" and "Invisible Cities". Post-WWII, he shifted to invention, exploring dreams, reality, and human absurdity.

Happy Birthday, Italo Calvino! (b.Oct.15, 1923) Italo Calvino - The Distance From the Moon (1965) Shulamit Serafy, graphic designer and illustrator, animated film adaptation (2008) of a short story from Calvino's masterpiece 'Cosmicomics' (1965). www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ9c...

Italo Calvino was born 102 years ago today. He was a writer of delights, a fighter of fascism, and possessor of a mind always curious and subtle. Although he died in 1985, he was so far ahead of his times that his work feels like a map of our Invisible Cities and a guide to our Crossed Destinies.

Happy Birthday, Italo Calvino! (b.Oct.15, 1923)

“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.” ~ Invisible Cities Born on this day Italian writer Italo Calvino 1923 #Booksky

Writer Italo Calvino #BicycleBirthday October 15 (1923-1985)

Italo Calvino, born 102 years ago today, on writing – selected wisdom from a lifetime of letters by one of the greatest storytellers who ever lived www.themarginalian.org/2013/06/10/i...

“Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.” Italian writer Italo Calvino was born on this day in 1923. #WriterSky #Resistance #BOTD

"The life that you live in order to photograph it is already, at the outset, a commemoration of itself." An epoch before Instagram, Italo Calvino (who would have been 102 today) wrote so movingly about photography and the art of presence: www.themarginalian.org/2015/10/15/i...

Italo Calvino (with Jorge Luis Borges) - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

Remembering journalist & writer (of short stories and novels) Italo Calvino, born October 15, 1923, Santiago de Las Vegas, near Havana, Cuba (d. September 19, 1985). I read If on a winter's night a traveler (1979) in college -- it's a novel every writer & every reader should read. (More: alt text)

Here’s a fourth! Italo Calvino by David Levine, 1974 Today we’re celebrating Calvino’s birthday 🎂

In 1960 Raymond Queneau & François Le Lionnais created Oulipo, an experimental writing group that still exists today. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo I've never seen a key for this photo, but I recognize Italo Calvino & Harry Mathews sitting on the left, & Georges Perec behind Queneau.

Gianni Giansanti Italo Calvino 1984 "If digressions become so complex, so tangled & tortuous, so rapid as to hide their own tracks, who knows, perhaps death may not find us, perhaps time will lose its way & perhaps we ourselves can remain concealed in our shifting hiding places."

Italo Calvino by Sophie Bassouls, Saint Germain des Prés, December 5, 1974 "I wrote 'If on a winter's night a traveler' to show how well I could write if I did not exist."

"The imagination is a place in which it rains." - Italo Calvino 📷 Chien-Chi Chang New York City, June 23rd, 2017

“Italo Calvino was, word for word, the most charming writer to put pen to paper in the twentieth century.” - Merve Emre, from a fine article in the New Yorker newyorker.com/magazine/202... Love the illustration by Daniele Castellano

Remembering Italo Calvino on his birthday 🎂 📷 Ulf Andersen, 1984 "Architect of scrupulously imagined, apparently fantastic, insidiously plausible words, Calvino occupies a literary space somewhere east of Jorge Luis Borges & west of Vladimir Nabokov." - Michael Wood

Happy birthday to the late Italo Calvino! An author who fearlessly braved the frontiers of imagination. #booksky

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else. - Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities born on this day, 1923 #BookSky #ItaloCalvino

Italo Calvino🌹 *October 15, 1923 +September 19, 1985 Italian writer, associated with Italian realism, and a humorous fabulist. "Myths and mysteries are made of impalpable grains, like the pollen that remains stuck to the legs of butterflies; only those who understand this can hope for surprise"

"More than any other writer I know, to begin a new Calvino story is like embarking on a voyage to unknown lands. There is a joy to the sense of expectation he inspires..." — Chris Power Italo Calvino #botd

“Yes, the empire is sick, and, what is worse, it is trying to become accustomed to its sores. This is the aim of my explorations: examining the traces of happiness still to be glimpsed, I gauge its short supply.” ~ Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

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