# Armilla in The Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
boiteaoutils (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
... content, these maidens: in the morning you hear them singing. extract from The Invisible Cities , Italo Calvino. Harvest Books (1978)
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Treehouse Hotel by Dass
3rings (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... trees to create a permanent human habitat, and he was the fictional Cosimo di Rondo, namesake of Italo Calvino’s great novel The Baron in the Trees . Treehouse Hotel. Designed by Dass. Dass ’s Treehouse, to the contrary, is very real, though it is temporary. Built for Lisbon’s Experimenta Design —a two-month-long “international Biennale dedicated to design, architecture and creativity”—the...
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The Ambergris Week - Part 1: City of Saints and Madmen
Fantasy Book Critic (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... in approaching the review of a multi-faceted work. The stories of this book are reminiscent of Italo Calvino and Jorge Luis Borges. Vandermeer is an avid Borgesian: for what other reason the major bookstore in Ambergris would display the blind librarian name? (In fact, there is a well-concocted explanation in the glossary, elegant as in all good written fiction: BORGES would be the...
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Book Of A Lifetime: The Periodic Table, By Primo Levi
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
In 1985, Primo Levi was known in Britain and America for a single book, If This is a Man, his memoir of survival in Auschwitz. Then came The Periodic Table, which arrived in this country garlanded with eulogies from Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco.
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Five for: Jedediah Berry
3:AM Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
1) The Manual of Detection has drawn a lot of comparisons to various authors: from Friedrich Dürrenmatt to Dashiell Hammett, via Kafka and Paul Auster, taking in Italo Calvino. Which, if any, of these authors were an influence? All these authors to some extent, though Italo Calvino most substantially. While in college I studied Calvino with [...]
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Album: Sting, If on a Winter's Night... (Deutsche Grammophon)
The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Named after Italo Calvino's meta-fiction If On a Winter's Night a Traveller, this is Sting's second album for the German classical label, following his 2003 collection of lute music Songs from the Labyrinth.
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NOMO: Invisible Cities (Reviews)
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Nomo imagines every city skyline as a sound wave and, building on Ghost Rock , diffuses their Afrobeat-centeric sound in directions that could get any city's party pumping. Italo Calvino’s 1972 novel Invisible Cities is a series of poetic travelogues posed as a conversation between Marco Polo and Kublai Khan. That NOMO has named their latest album after Calvino’s work...
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Using the tarot to write your novel
Poor Mojo Newswire (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
... Steinbeck and Stephen King, have used tarot cards for inspiration. She adds that Italian novelist Italo Calvino went so far as to call the tarot “a machine for writing stories.” If you’re thinking of writing a novel, you can apply the imagery and symbolism of the 78 cards of the tarot to help you develop plot, conflict, character profiles, dialogue, and scenery,...
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It Didn't Scare Me
× × PENNED DODO × × (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Following from yesterday's blog (Ideas Brewed About Art) I've been thinking about how the way we experience art is controlled by the environment. The heeled shoe clattering on the polished gallery floor, punctuating spaces of silence as you move from piece to piece. Italo Calvino introduces his 'On A Winter's Night a Traveller' with a request for you to get comfortable enough the enjoy...
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Sempé Fi: By the Book
Emdashes (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
... really should? The volume of reading he needs to do is daunting. I'm reminded by a passage from Italo Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler , a book about books: "Eluding these assaults, you come up beneath the towers of the fortress, where other troops are holding out: the Books You've Been Planning To Read For Ages, the Books You've Been Hunting For Years Without Success,...
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Fairy Tales in the Guardian
educating alice (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
... My Hedgehog translated by Jack Zipes Sarah Churchwell on Justice and Punishment in Fairy Tales Italo Calvino’s The One-Handed Murderer translated by George Martin Alison Lurie on Wisdom and Folly in Fairy Tales I. B. Singer’s The Mixed-Up Feet and the Silly Bridegroom translated by Elizabeth Shub Adam Phillips on Quests in Fairy Tales The Lion and the Hare retold from the Sanskrit...
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The Tarot as a Tool for Writing Your Novel
Write to Done (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
... Steinbeck and Stephen King, have used tarot cards for inspiration. She adds that Italian novelist Italo Calvino went so far as to call the tarot “a machine for writing stories.” If you’re thinking of writing a novel, you can apply the imagery and symbolism of the 78 cards of the tarot to help you develop plot, conflict, character profiles, dialogue, and scenery, as well as to introduce...
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So Percussion: Meditation on American Cities at BAM
Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Oct 14—17 at 7:30pm at BAM: In even the most forgotten corners and forsaken shadows, the city seethes with life, splayed out in a symphony of sensations. In Imaginary City, New York's powerhouse percussion ensemble Sō Percussion immerses itself in everyday urban experiences, offering a multifaceted meditation on American cities. Inspired by Italo Calvino's ebullient descriptions...
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Daily Chat 15/10/09
The Untrusted (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
... (1814-1841), Friederich Nietsche (1844-1900), P.G. Wodehouse (1881-1975), Mario Puzo (1920-1999), Italo Calvino (1923-1985), Penny Marshall (1942) and David Trimble (1944). It's Global Handwashing Day, so wash those filthy mitts.
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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 15 October
European Tribune (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
A Daily Review Of International Online Media Europeans on this date in history:1923 – Italo Calvino,...