A Plunge Into Calvino Podcast
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The account of the A Plunge Into Calvino podcast, dedicated to Italo Calvino.
The views expressed here are personal, and not that of my employer.
The views expressed here are personal, and not that of my employer.
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Por que Ler Os Clássicos - Italo Calvino
December 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Por que Ler Os Clássicos - Italo Calvino
That's a somewhat...odd cover, I have to say.
Calvino Difficult Loves
Difficult Loves (Italian: Gli amori difficili) is a 1970 short story collection by Italo Calvino. It concerns love and the difficulty of communication
#Calvino
Difficult Loves (Italian: Gli amori difficili) is a 1970 short story collection by Italo Calvino. It concerns love and the difficulty of communication
#Calvino
December 8, 2025 at 1:29 PM
That's a somewhat...odd cover, I have to say.
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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!
December 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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!
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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.
December 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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?
My top three Calvino: 1. The Nonexistent Knight 2. Mr. Palomar 3. Cosmicomics (just edging Invisible Cities). My recent Calvino discovery is that he spent time in America during the civil rights movement (‘59-‘60), met MLK, and wrote of his experiences during that time. A marvelous human.
December 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
For fun - what are your top 3 Calvino works?
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"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
– Italo Calvino
December 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
"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
– Italo Calvino
Can anyone help with this?
I am looking for the original Italian text of Italo Calvino’s https://bibliografia.laboratoriocalvino.org/schede/4913 . So far, I only managed to find its English translation, “Cybernetics and Ghosts”.
Can someone help me find it?
Can someone help me find it?
December 1, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Can anyone help with this?
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.
November 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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).
Wow ! Une journée avec une belle série médiévaliste des années 1990, d'après le conte d'Italo Calvino ! On fonce profiter d'un dimanche de fête avec La Caverne de la rose d'or sur Twitch !
C'est officiel le Marathon de la Caverne de la rose d'or aura lieu le 21 Décembre sur Twitch à partir de 8h du matin!
UNE JOURNÉE pour fêter cette fin d'année dans la France de Macron !On aura bien besoin de Fantagaro, Romumu, Tarabas et surtout Brigitte. « LA REINE NOIRE » Nielsen !! PRÉPAREZ-Vous!
UNE JOURNÉE pour fêter cette fin d'année dans la France de Macron !On aura bien besoin de Fantagaro, Romumu, Tarabas et surtout Brigitte. « LA REINE NOIRE » Nielsen !! PRÉPAREZ-Vous!
November 30, 2025 at 9:51 AM
'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).
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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.
November 25, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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.
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AI43 Winner ADA ZEJUN SHEN @ada_zshen
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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
@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
November 19, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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
@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.
Finished reading “Invisible Cities” by Italo Calvino on a flight, marking the first time I willingly picked up a novel and finished it in like a decade. It was phenomenal, with some beautiful prose (even translated out of Italian) and was incredibly thought-provoking. Highly recommend
November 14, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Calvino's still got it.
Also same.
Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler. Every time I read it, it’s an engine of change. Historical contingency? The complexity of reading sources and/or translation? All alive there. A great re/read! 🗃️
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Also same.
Same.
the one-two punch of reading If on a winter’s night a traveler and Invisible Cities back to back at nineteen made me feel both like my mind was literally expanding toward a new understanding of what writing could be and more viscerally annoying to be around than ever before
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Same.
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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 Orientation Game
Joel Gustafson
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October 29, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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...
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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.
October 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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.
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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.
September 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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.
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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 - 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...
The distance from the moon - Italo Calvino
YouTube video by shulamits
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October 15, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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 - 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...
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Italo Calvino was such a handsome man!
October 16, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Italo Calvino was such a handsome man!
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.
October 15, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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.
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Happy Birthday, Italo Calvino! (b.Oct.15, 1923)
October 15, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Happy Birthday, Italo Calvino! (b.Oct.15, 1923)
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“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
Born on this day Italian writer Italo Calvino 1923
#Booksky
October 15, 2025 at 12:12 PM
“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
Born on this day Italian writer Italo Calvino 1923
#Booksky
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October 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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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...
Italo Calvino on Writing: Selected Wisdom from a Lifetime of Letters
“One writes most of all in order to take part in a collective enterprise.”
www.themarginalian.org
October 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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...