Podcasts about Italo Calvino

Area membri per i testi, gli appunti di lingua italiana e i miei video-commenti: www.italiantimezone.com/areamembri-il-salotto-italiano____Leggiamo insieme Italo Calvino: Le città invisibili. Viaggiamo con la mente e l'immaginazione. Pratica l'italiano con i libri e le letture, il lessico in contesto è più facile da imparare!Quali pensieri ti ha suscitato questa lettura?Scrivi un commento qui: https://www.italiantimezone.com/italiano-cultura/le-citta-invisibili-italo-calvino-parte-2Trovi le altre letture su YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist/lettureGiulia Borelliwww.italiantimezone.com

Oggi ricordiamo l'anniversario della morte di uno degli scrittori italiani più amati e importanti del Novecento, avvenuta 40 anni fa: Italo Calvino..Support the project on Tipeee or Patreon and receive transcriptions of each episode, complete with translations of the most challenging words:https://it.tipeee.com/italian-stories-with-davide/news/237769.https://www.patreon.com/posts/reading-le-citta-139639121.Donation - Paypal:https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=HJF6KQ4BY27Y2.Hope you enjoy and...Ci vediamo presto!Music by Davide Emanuelli

Pensiero, libri, saggi e poetica di uno dei più grandi intellettuali del Novecento italiano; autore, tra gli atri, de I nostri antenati e di Lezioni americane.

durée : 01:11:44 - Les Nuits de France Culture - par : Philippe Garbit, Albane Penaranda, Antoine Dhulster - En 1976, Italo Calvino retrace son parcours littéraire, lui l'écrivain passé du réalisme vers une littérature du fantastique. Il expose ses réflexions sur l'écriture : ce qui l'attire dans les contes de fées, son idéal de parvenir à un "je" anonyme et les rapports entre littérature et politique. - réalisation : Virginie Mourthé - invités : Italo Calvino écrivain italien

In occasione del 40esimo anniversario della morte dello scrittore Italo Calvino, LASER ripropone due documentari realizzati a Sanremo e a Parigi. Raccontano Italo Calvino prima della sua esperienza di scrittore nella città dove i suoi genitori, famosi botanici, erano i responsabili della stazione sperimentale dedicata alla flora, quindi l'esperienza parigina, dove Italo Calvino, già affermato autore, ha avuto la possibilità di conoscere altri scrittori di fama internazionale e condividere con loro la passione per la scrittura.I due documentari consentono all'ascoltatore di comprendere meglio lo stile e i temi trattati da Italo Calvino attraverso i luoghi nei quali ha vissuto o che frequentava con regolarità. Quei posti sono ancora oggi visitabili e ci consentono di leggere i capolavori dello scrittore con occhi e prospettive diverse.undefined

RtB loves the present-day shadows cast by neglected books, which can suddenly loom up out of the backlit past. So, you won't be shocked to know that John has also been editing a Public Books column called B-Side Books. In it, around 50 writers (Ursula Le Guin was one) have made the case for un-forgetting a beloved book. Now, there is a book that collects 40 of these columns. Find it as your local bookstore, or Columbia University Press, or Bookshop, (or even Amazon). Like our podcast, B-Side Books focuses on those moments when books topple off their shelves, open up, and start bellowing at you. The one that enthralled Merve Emre (Wesleyan professor and author ofsuch terrific works as The Personality Brokers) was a novella by the luminous midcentury Italian pessimist, Natalia Ginzburg. And if you think you know precisely why a mid-century Italian writer would have a dark and bitter view of the world (already thinking of the Nazi shadows in work by Italo Calvino, Primo Levi and Giorgio Bassani) Ginzburg's The Dry Heart will have you thinking again. Merve Emre, Ginzburg fan and B-Side author Merve started her piece, and we started this 2023 conversation, by asking that age-old question: “When should a woman kill her husband?” Mentioned in This Episode J. W. Goethe, Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) Michael Warner, “Uncritical Reading” Natalia Ginzburg. The Little Virtues (personal essays that do not stage an excessive evacuation of the self, but instead triangulate between reader, writer and object of concern…) Elena Ferrante, The Neapolitan Novels Fleur Jaeggy, Sweet Days of Discipline and These Possible Lives Rachel Ingals Mrs. Caliban (1982) Read transcript here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

RtB loves the present-day shadows cast by neglected books, which can suddenly loom up out of the backlit past. So, you won't be shocked to know that John has also been editing a Public Books column called B-Side Books. In it, around 50 writers (Ursula Le Guin was one) have made the case for un-forgetting a beloved book. Now, there is a book that collects 40 of these columns. Find it as your local bookstore, or Columbia University Press, or Bookshop, (or even Amazon). Like our podcast, B-Side Books focuses on those moments when books topple off their shelves, open up, and start bellowing at you. The one that enthralled Merve Emre (Wesleyan professor and author ofsuch terrific works as The Personality Brokers) was a novella by the luminous midcentury Italian pessimist, Natalia Ginzburg. And if you think you know precisely why a mid-century Italian writer would have a dark and bitter view of the world (already thinking of the Nazi shadows in work by Italo Calvino, Primo Levi and Giorgio Bassani) Ginzburg's The Dry Heart will have you thinking again. Merve Emre, Ginzburg fan and B-Side author Merve started her piece, and we started this 2023 conversation, by asking that age-old question: “When should a woman kill her husband?” Mentioned in This Episode J. W. Goethe, Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) Michael Warner, “Uncritical Reading” Natalia Ginzburg. The Little Virtues (personal essays that do not stage an excessive evacuation of the self, but instead triangulate between reader, writer and object of concern…) Elena Ferrante, The Neapolitan Novels Fleur Jaeggy, Sweet Days of Discipline and These Possible Lives Rachel Ingals Mrs. Caliban (1982) Read transcript here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

RtB loves the present-day shadows cast by neglected books, which can suddenly loom up out of the backlit past. So, you won't be shocked to know that John has also been editing a Public Books column called B-Side Books. In it, around 50 writers (Ursula Le Guin was one) have made the case for un-forgetting a beloved book. Now, there is a book that collects 40 of these columns. Find it as your local bookstore, or Columbia University Press, or Bookshop, (or even Amazon). Like our podcast, B-Side Books focuses on those moments when books topple off their shelves, open up, and start bellowing at you. The one that enthralled Merve Emre (Wesleyan professor and author ofsuch terrific works as The Personality Brokers) was a novella by the luminous midcentury Italian pessimist, Natalia Ginzburg. And if you think you know precisely why a mid-century Italian writer would have a dark and bitter view of the world (already thinking of the Nazi shadows in work by Italo Calvino, Primo Levi and Giorgio Bassani) Ginzburg's The Dry Heart will have you thinking again. Merve Emre, Ginzburg fan and B-Side author Merve started her piece, and we started this 2023 conversation, by asking that age-old question: “When should a woman kill her husband?” Mentioned in This Episode J. W. Goethe, Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) Michael Warner, “Uncritical Reading” Natalia Ginzburg. The Little Virtues (personal essays that do not stage an excessive evacuation of the self, but instead triangulate between reader, writer and object of concern…) Elena Ferrante, The Neapolitan Novels Fleur Jaeggy, Sweet Days of Discipline and These Possible Lives Rachel Ingals Mrs. Caliban (1982) Read transcript here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

durée : 00:54:35 - Les Nuits de France Culture - par : Mathilde Wagman - En 1976, Italo Calvino revient sur ses débuts littéraires, son engagement comme maquisard et ses influences, notamment Elio Vittorini et Cesare Pavese. Il évoque aussi la parution de son premier roman, "Le Sentier des nids d'araignées", avant de rompre avec le réalisme italien de l'époque. - réalisation : Virginie Mourthé - invités : Italo Calvino écrivain italien

(00:00:00) 101 - Le città invisibili: Leggiamo insieme Italo Calvino - Parte 1 (00:00:01) Introduzione (00:01:31) Perché ho scelto "Le città invisibili" (00:03:53) Presentazione di Italo Calvino (00:07:50) Le città e la memoria: Maurilia (00:11:22) Commento personale alla lettura Area membri per i testi e gli appunti di lingua italiana: www.italiantimezone.com/areamembri-il-salotto-italiano____Leggiamo insieme Italo Calvino: Le città invisibili. Viaggiamo con la mente e l'immaginazione. Pratica l'italiano con i libri e le letture, il lessico in contesto è più facile da imparare!A quale città hai pensato quando hai ascoltato la lettura?Conoscevi questo libro?Pensi sia facile o difficile da capire?Scrivi un commento qui: https://www.italiantimezone.com/italiano-cultura/le-citta-invisibili-italo-calvinoTrovi le altre letture su YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist/lettureGiulia Borelliwww.italiantimezone.com

In occasione del 40esimo anniversario della morte dello scrittore Italo Calvino, LASER ripropone due documentari realizzati a Sanremo e a Parigi. Raccontano Italo Calvino prima della sua esperienza di scrittore nella città dove i suoi genitori, famosi botanici, erano i responsabili della stazione sperimentale dedicata alla flora, quindi l'esperienza parigina, dove Italo Calvino, già affermato autore, ha avuto la possibilità di conoscere altri scrittori di fama internazionale e condividere con loro la passione per la scrittura.I due documentari consentono all'ascoltatore di comprendere meglio lo stile e i temi trattati da Italo Calvino attraverso i luoghi nei quali ha vissuto o che frequentava con regolarità. Quei posti sono ancora oggi visitabili e ci consentono di leggere i capolavori dello scrittore con occhi e prospettive diverse.undefined

Italo Calvino: biografia, opere e pensiero di uno degli scrittori italiani più celebri, autore de Le città invisibili, Il Barone rampante e molti altri libri.

Filozoficzno-poetycko-miejsca perełka od Italo Calvino. Delicje!

Guido Mazzoni"Mimesis"Festival Filosofiawww.festivalfilosofia.itFestival Filosofia, SassuoloDomenica 21 settembre 2025, ore 15:00Guido MazzoniMimesisSull'utilità e il danno della letteratura per la vitaIn che modo la letteratura ha ridefinito l'idea di formazione?Questa lezione indaga il ruolo della parola scritta nella costruzione del nostro immaginario riguardo al passaggio dalla giovinezza alla maturità, dall'epica al romanzo e ad altre forme poetiche e narrative, mostrando come abbia indotto, nel corso dei secoli, a riflettere e a interrogarci sulle trasformazioni psicologiche e culturali della società e della specie umana.Guido Mazzoni"Senza riparo"Sei tentativi di leggere il presenteEditori Laterzawww.laterza.it«La guerra fredda non è finita, continuano anche alcuni spargimenti di sangue locali, ma la gente è al riparo e li guarda come grandinate estive in un giorno di sole», scriveva Italo Calvino nel 1961 parlando della percezione della storia che si aveva in quegli anni. Se oggi volessimo descrivere con una formula sintetica lo stato d'animo che attraversa la scena politica contemporanea, dovremmo dire che l'impressione di essere al riparo si è dissolta completamente.Dopo la fine della Guerra fredda le società occidentali hanno vissuto nell'illusione di essere al riparo. Poi, negli ultimi quindici anni, il senso di sicurezza si è dissolto e ha lasciato spazio a un'impressione opposta, quella di trovarsi in mezzo a una crisi complessa di cui i populismi e le guerre culturali sono gli aspetti più vistosi. Questo libro cerca di interpretarla ragionando su alcuni eventi decisivi e su alcune figure simboliche, a cominciare da Donald Trump. Al tempo stesso riflette su certe premesse di fondo della politica contemporanea, e in particolare sull'idea che le società occidentali non sappiano più immaginare un'alternativa che non sia la degenerazione autoritaria della democrazia liberale o il disordine.Guido Mazzoni è professore di Teoria della letteratura presso l'Università di Siena. Ha insegnato in diverse istituzioni internazionali. Dal 2017 insegna scrittura creativa alla Scuola Molly Bloom di Roma e al Master di scrittura creativa presso l'Università IULM di Milano. I suoi campi di ricerca riguardano la storia dei generi letterari, la teoria critica e l'estetica, la poesia del Novecento e la storia della poesia moderna nonché la teoria del romanzo. I suoi studi si concentrano su questioni come la soggettività contemporanea, il ruolo della letteratura nell'epoca della globalizzazione, la storia delle forme simboliche, la crisi delle grandi narrazioni e la difficoltà di costruire senso in un orizzonte post-identitario. I suoi lavori si muovono tra estetica, teoria della soggettività e analisi dei dispositivi narrativi che strutturano l'esperienza. Ha contribuito a rinnovare il dibattito critico e culturale in Italia, indagando il nesso fra rappresentazione letteraria, forma di vita e costruzione del senso nel mondo contemporaneo. È tra i fondatori del sito letterario “Le parole e le cose”, che ha diretto fra il 2011 e il 2018. Ha collaborato con “la Repubblica” e “il manifesto”. Tra i suoi libri: Teoria del romanzo (Bologna 2011); I destini generali (Roma-Bari 2015); On Modern Poetry (Cambridge-Mass. 2022, nuova versione riscritta di Sulla poesia moderna, Bologna 2005); Senza riparo. Sei tentativi di leggere il presente (Roma-Bari 2025). Ha scritto i libri di poesia: I mondi (Roma 2010, Premio Selezione Ceppo, Premio Tirinnanzi) e La pura superficie (Roma 2017, Premio Pagliarani, Premio Napoli).Diventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.it/

Approfondiamo Le città invisibili di Italo Calvino: trama, analisi e significato delle città descritte, un viaggio tra immaginazione e riflessione filosofica.

Alla riscoperta delle favole, con Paola Zannoner, autrice del libro, “Le fiabe non servono a niente”, Laterza. Perché l'autrice, a dispetto del titolo del libro, riconosce alle favole un valore simbolico, così come Italo Calvino secondo il quale sono “catalogo dei destini che possono darsi a un uomo e una donna” nel loro percorso esistenziale.Nella seconda parte le recensioni ai gialli che sono in fondo delle favole per adulti:Tiziano Fratus, “L’Affaire Simenon”, SolferinoGeorges Simenon, “La morte di Auguste”, AdelphiMuriel Spark, “Biglietto di sola andata”, AdelphiTom Benjamin, “Compagni di sangue”, PendragonPetros Markaris, “Il futuro è una truffa”, La nave di TeseoPierre Boileau, Thomas Narcejac, “I vedovi”, AdelphiIl confettino, i consigli di lettura per i più piccoli, di questa settimana:Gianni Rodari, “Le favole a rovescio. Gianni Rodari riscrive le fiabe classiche”, Edizioni ELGianni Rodari, “Le più belle favole illustrate”, Edizioni ELGianni Rodari, “Fiabe lunghe un sorriso”, Einaudi“Biancaneve e altre fiabe” dei Fratelli Grimm, L’ippocampo.

Hagamos un viaje filosófico desde la entrada de nuestro departamento, hasta lo más íntimo, el corazón, pasando por la oficina en busca de respuestas a las interrogaciones de todos los días sobre la amistad, la justicia, el amor... Hacemos este periplo de la mano de Tania Sánchez, que publica ‘Filosofía para todos los días, una aventura interior en 70 preguntas', en la editorial Espasa.  En ‘Filosofía para todos los días, una aventura interior en 70 preguntas', la filósofa y profesora Tania Sánchez abarca preguntas que pueden surgir en nuestro día con día que van de lo más prosaico hasta los tormentos del alma. Con preguntas como ¿es posible ser lo suficientemente rico?, ¿cómo imponer límites a nuestros hijos? o ¿por qué hablamos tanto para no decir nada?, la autora propone, cada vez en dos páginas, "reflexionar sobre nuestra vida" y dirigirse hacia una existencia más feliz. Un vasto proyecto en menos de 200 páginas muy alejando de los libros de autoayuda. "No se trata de dar recetas o consejos". Se trata más bien de acercar la filosofía a un público que no es de especialistas y dar claves: "No sé si un libro de filosofía te va a ayudar enseguida. Son puntos de partida para empezar a reflexionar sobre las razones por las cuales hay cosas que nos hacen infelices. Y entonces al final espero que haya un horizonte de felicidad, pero no es felicidad garantizada." Con Cicerón, Italo Calvino, Immanuel Kant, Emmanuel Levinas y tantos otros y otras más abarcamos muchísimos aspectos de la vida como el eterno tema de la mortalidad, la enfermedad, nuestros lazos familiares, el mundo laboral, etc. Sánchez parte del principio que los momentos ordinarios de la vida pueden esconder grandes revelaciones. Pero hay un tema que es recurrente, ya sea en nuestro dormitorio, en el ocio, en el espacio público, es cómo nos relacionamos con la tecnología y cómo esta tecnología transforma cómo nos relacionamos con nosotros mismos y con los demás. "Las pantallas y el mundo tecnológico forman parte de nuestra vida cotidiana. También me interesa de forma fenomenológica de qué se trata esta experiencia de mirar una pantalla, de usar un teléfono. Por ejemplo, al principio, tenemos una tecnología para ayudarnos a contestar a un número más grande de correos. Pero al final tenemos tantos correos que terminamos dedicando más tiempo a la correspondencia ahora que antes. Entonces eso es una paradoja total", explica Tania Sánchez.  Otra paradoja que interesa a Tania Sánchez es la necesidad de estar solos para interactuar en el mundo virtual: "Como cuando estamos con un amigo e interrumpe la conversación para contestar al mensaje de otro amigo".  Aprender a aburrirse Esta inquietud está muy relacionada con nuestra manera deplorable de gestionar el aburrimiento: "No solo de pequeños, pero también de adultos. Con el aburrimiento se construyen cosas, ideas surgen. A veces no estoy haciendo absolutamente nada y me viene una idea y empiezo a escribir o me da una idea para otra clase de filosofía. Pero si no me hubiera aburrido, si estuviera escuchando un podcast, pues no hubiera surgido esta idea. Es verdad que uno de los caminos que abro, que no es una idea nueva porque ya lo escribía Pascal, es aprender a aburrirse y elegir voluntariamente este aburrimiento".  Es cierto que el camino de este libro parte de la entrada de la casa y va poco a poco caminando hacia el corazón y hacia los inevitables temas de la muerte y de la razón de nuestra vida: ¿Qué sentido tiene? Tania Sánchez le deja la última palabra a Nietzsche. Que el lector no se deje intimidar. Originalmente publicado en francés, 'Filosofía para todos los días' fue un éxito y conquistó lectores muy alejados de los tratados filosóficos. Pronto Tania Sánchez será publicada en México con el sello Ariel. #EscalaenParís también está en redes sociales Un programa coordinado por Julia Courtois, realizado por Souheil Khedir y Vanessa Loiseau.

Hagamos un viaje filosófico desde la entrada de nuestro departamento, hasta lo más íntimo, el corazón, pasando por la oficina en busca de respuestas a las interrogaciones de todos los días sobre la amistad, la justicia, el amor... Hacemos este periplo de la mano de Tania Sánchez, que publica ‘Filosofía para todos los días, una aventura interior en 70 preguntas', en la editorial Espasa.  En ‘Filosofía para todos los días, una aventura interior en 70 preguntas', la filósofa y profesora Tania Sánchez abarca preguntas que pueden surgir en nuestro día con día que van de lo más prosaico hasta los tormentos del alma. Con preguntas como ¿es posible ser lo suficientemente rico?, ¿cómo imponer límites a nuestros hijos? o ¿por qué hablamos tanto para no decir nada?, la autora propone, cada vez en dos páginas, "reflexionar sobre nuestra vida" y dirigirse hacia una existencia más feliz. Un vasto proyecto en menos de 200 páginas muy alejando de los libros de autoayuda. "No se trata de dar recetas o consejos". Se trata más bien de acercar la filosofía a un público que no es de especialistas y dar claves: "No sé si un libro de filosofía te va a ayudar enseguida. Son puntos de partida para empezar a reflexionar sobre las razones por las cuales hay cosas que nos hacen infelices. Y entonces al final espero que haya un horizonte de felicidad, pero no es felicidad garantizada." Con Cicerón, Italo Calvino, Immanuel Kant, Emmanuel Levinas y tantos otros y otras más abarcamos muchísimos aspectos de la vida como el eterno tema de la mortalidad, la enfermedad, nuestros lazos familiares, el mundo laboral, etc. Sánchez parte del principio que los momentos ordinarios de la vida pueden esconder grandes revelaciones. Pero hay un tema que es recurrente, ya sea en nuestro dormitorio, en el ocio, en el espacio público, es cómo nos relacionamos con la tecnología y cómo esta tecnología transforma cómo nos relacionamos con nosotros mismos y con los demás. "Las pantallas y el mundo tecnológico forman parte de nuestra vida cotidiana. También me interesa de forma fenomenológica de qué se trata esta experiencia de mirar una pantalla, de usar un teléfono. Por ejemplo, al principio, tenemos una tecnología para ayudarnos a contestar a un número más grande de correos. Pero al final tenemos tantos correos que terminamos dedicando más tiempo a la correspondencia ahora que antes. Entonces eso es una paradoja total", explica Tania Sánchez.  Otra paradoja que interesa a Tania Sánchez es la necesidad de estar solos para interactuar en el mundo virtual: "Como cuando estamos con un amigo e interrumpe la conversación para contestar al mensaje de otro amigo".  Aprender a aburrirse Esta inquietud está muy relacionada con nuestra manera deplorable de gestionar el aburrimiento: "No solo de pequeños, pero también de adultos. Con el aburrimiento se construyen cosas, ideas surgen. A veces no estoy haciendo absolutamente nada y me viene una idea y empiezo a escribir o me da una idea para otra clase de filosofía. Pero si no me hubiera aburrido, si estuviera escuchando un podcast, pues no hubiera surgido esta idea. Es verdad que uno de los caminos que abro, que no es una idea nueva porque ya lo escribía Pascal, es aprender a aburrirse y elegir voluntariamente este aburrimiento".  Es cierto que el camino de este libro parte de la entrada de la casa y va poco a poco caminando hacia el corazón y hacia los inevitables temas de la muerte y de la razón de nuestra vida: ¿Qué sentido tiene? Tania Sánchez le deja la última palabra a Nietzsche. Que el lector no se deje intimidar. Originalmente publicado en francés, 'Filosofía para todos los días' fue un éxito y conquistó lectores muy alejados de los tratados filosóficos. Pronto Tania Sánchez será publicada en México con el sello Ariel. #EscalaenParís también está en redes sociales Un programa coordinado por Julia Courtois, realizado por Souheil Khedir y Vanessa Loiseau.

L'uomo verde d'alghe. Italo Calvino, Fiabe italiane, 1956

It's episode 214 and time for us to talk about the genre/topic of Non-Traditional Storytelling! We discuss epistolary novels, novels in verse, punctuation, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray

Topos in Fabula Italo Calvino

Polecam dzisiaj zbiór opowiadań Italo Calvino "Trudne miłości". Wspaniałe, potencjalne, matematyczne opowiadania.

Por refrescarte la memoria: desde octubre de 2022 acudo a tres clubes de lectura:- Club de Lectura Ursula de ciencia ficción, fantasía y terror, en la Librería Casa tomada- Club de Lectura en inglés, de la Biblioteca Provincial de Cádiz- Club de Lectura en inglés en Olivar de QuintosA comienzos de enero, decidí hacer algunos cambios: 188 - ¿Qué cambios en mis hábitos de lectura he comenzado en enero 2025? https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/al-daily-podcast/episodes/188---Qu-cambios-en-mis-hbitos-de-lectura-he-comenzado-en-enero-2025-e2u5dse/a-abokgcfPor cierto, que si quieres escuchar mi balance de la temporada 2023/2024 puedes encontrarlo en este episodio: 56 - ¿Qué balance hago de la temporada 2023/2024 de clubes de lectura? https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/al-daily-podcast/episodes/56---Qu-balance-hago-de-la-temporada-20232024-de-clubes-de-lectura-e2l148g/a-abc9kecEn lo que ha sido 2024/2025:- El Club al que menos he faltado es el de Casa Tomada (8 de 9), seguido del de la Biblioteca de Cádiz (4 de 9), mientras que a Olivar de Quintos he ido a 3 de 8.- De los libros leídos, 8 estaban escritos por mujeres, 6 por hombres y un libro por un autore no binario. El libro que he abandonado en inglés estaba escrito a cuatro manos por un autor y una autora.- La mayoría de los libros en inglés no me han entusiasmado: solo destacaría “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” y “And then there were none”. Da la coincidencia de que ambos los había leído previamente en español. “Life of Pi” me dejó el corazón rotito.- Del Club Ursula los que más me gustaron fueron: “La mano izquierda de la oscuridad”, de Ursula K. Le Guin, “Lágrimas en la lluvia”, de Rosa Montero y Las Ciudades invisibles, de Italo Calvino, que ya he leído varias veces.De cara a la temporada 2025/2026- Seguiré priorizando el Club Ursula y el de la Biblioteca de Cádiz frente al de Olivar de Quintos- En el primer trimestre del Club Ursula leeremos: “Extraño”, de Miguel Ángel García Argüez (Libros de la Herida), “El cielo de la Selva”, de Elaine Vilar Madruga (Lava) y “La Llave de los Misterios” de Jesús Relinque (Kaizen)- En la Biblioteca de Cádiz, también tenemos ya toda la programación del curso, pero te digo los primeros: “The age of innocence”, de Edith Warton; “It ends with us”, Colleen Hoover y “The day of the Jackal”, de Frederick Forsyth.- Y un notición

Un uomo che vive tutta la sua vita sugli alberi. Un cavaliere invisibile, ma nobile nell'animo. Un visconte in cerca della propria integrità. Scopriamo insieme i tre romanzi della trilogia "I nostri antenati" di Italo Calvino.

Podobno pravljico, transilvansko, sva si ogledala nedavno,. Zaplet v tej pravljici je drugačen. V njej nastopajo princi, v oni kmečki fantje. Krivično bi bilo, če bi le eden od princev dobil kraljično za ženo in pravljica se konča tako, da so prav vsi zadovoljni in da se ni bilo treba nikomur tepsti. Prisluhni.Vir: Italijanske pravljice, Italo Calvino, izbrala, prevedla in spremno besedo napisala Tea Stoka, verze prevedla Marija Javoršek, Mladinska knjiga, Ljubljana 1997, bere Nataša Holy

Welcome to Mona Lisa Overpod, the show that asks the question "What is cyberpunk?" On each episode, hosts Ka1iban and author Lyda Morehouse dive into the genre that helped define sci-fi fiction in '80s and they break down its themes which remain relevant to our lives in the 21st century. Pull on your mirrorshades, jack into the matrix, and start your run with us today!For a sci-fi author known for his dense and trippy short stories, Philip K Dick has had a surprising amount of breezy action movies made from his work. Chief among those adaptations is Total Recall, the Arnold Schwarzenegger-starring, Paul Verhoven-directed film that injects visceral thrills into the ontological puzzle box of Dick's original short story "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale". Total Recall presents a ebullient but deadly world of spies in space, but under the fun are deep questions about the the nature of reailty and whether we can choose who we really are. And yes, it's got a lady with three breasts in it. In this episode, we discuss interfacing with Dick through his adaptations, the way his work conflates memory and identity, entry-level mindfuckery, Verhoven's mastery of American satire, the film's exploration of colonialism in space, the persistence of the male narrative in cyberpunk, Barsoom and Red Mars, trusting your educated audience, and why Schwarzenegger is the perfect everyspaceman. We also talk about the science of Marvel fatigue, the Thin Graphite Line, gritty undertones and raw emotional subtext, asking if the kids know Arnold, a Dick deep dive, Regarding Henry, smartly dumb films, Mars as a projection screen, "pantsing", a Italo Calvino nightmare, the World Wide Coffee Klatsch, and vampires are so hot right now (and later).I wish I had three ears!The new edition of Lyda's book, Ressurection Code, is out now!https://wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/books-by-lyda-morehouse/resurrection-code/Join Kaliban on Twitch weekdays at 12pm for the Cyber Lunch Hour!http://twitch.tv/justenoughtropePut Just Enough Trope merch on your body!http://justenoughtrope.threadless.comMLOP is a part of the Just Enough Trope podcast network. Check out our other shows about your favorite pop culture topics and join our Discord!http://www.twitter.com/monalisaoverpodhttp://www.justenoughtrope.comhttp://www.instagram.com/monalisaoverpodhttps://discord.gg/7E6wUayqBuy us a coffee on Ko-Fi!https://ko-fi.com/justenoughtrope

Maddalena Calderoni"Tones Teatro Natura"Oira Crevalodossola https://www.tonesteatronatura.com/Da venerdì 13 giugno a domenica 7 settembre Musica, teatro, danza, performance, food, attività outdoor e incontri fra arte, cultura ed ecologia nel meraviglioso teatro di pietra ai piedi delle AlpiTra gli ospiti:Caterina Barbieri, Amaro Freitas, Tony Hadley, Joan Thiele, Vittoria Yeo Torna la programmazione estiva di Tones Teatro Natura che partirà venerdì 13 giugno nel suggestivo teatro di pietra ai piedi delle Alpi nel cuore della Val D'Ossola. Un luogo unico, realizzato in una ex cava di granito di Oira Crevoladossola grazie a un importante processo di riqualificazione ambientale, concepito a partire da una diversa visione del rapporto fra programmazione culturale e paesaggio naturale. Prodotta dalla Fondazione Tones on the Stones, la nuova stagione durerà fino a domenica 7 settembre e proporrà ancora una volta un programma denso e articolato tra musica, teatro, danza, performance, attività outdoor, food e incontri con esponenti del mondo della cultura. La programmazione partirà con Superbandistico, il raduno di quattro complessi bandistici che si terrà venerdì 13 giugno e sabato 14 giugno.A seguire, la seconda edizione di Sphera. Visioni circolari per il nostro futuro, il format inaugurato l'anno scorso, articolato in tre giornate da venerdì 20 a domenica 22 giugno. Ospite d'eccezione Joan Thiele, cantautrice e producer, tra le voci più interessanti del genere indie nella generazione emergente.Gli eventi di luglio verranno inaugurati da CM Orchestra, straordinaria e unica orchestra ritmico sinfonica, di nuovo presente a Tones Teatro Natura nella serata di venerdì 4 luglio con un nuovo programma e un nuovo ospite prestigioso: Tony Hadley. Ex frontman degli Spandau Ballet, band simbolo degli anni '80, Tony Hadley ha scritto la storia della musica con hit indimenticabili come True, Gold e Through the Barricades. Per esplorare il rapporto tra musica, natura lussureggiante e impatto umano, sabato 12 luglio sarà la volta del giovane pianista brasiliano Amaro Freitas, uno degli astri nascenti del jazz carioca e internazionale. E poi, ancora, da giovedì 17 a domenica 20 luglio la maratona di Nextones, annoverato dalla critica e dal pubblico come uno dei migliori Boutique Festival europei, che anche quest'anno accoglierà alcuni tra i migliori artisti della scena contemporanea internazionale, tra cui Caterina Barbieri, recentemente nominata direttrice per la Biennale Musica. Sabato 26 luglio andrà in scena a Tones Teatro Natura un nuovo allestimento immersivo di Madama Butterfly di Giacomo Puccini, debutto alla regia di Maddalena Calderoni, che ha lavorato a quattro mani con il regista Renato Bonajuto e con Edvige Faini, già visual artist di The Witches Seed.Il mese di agosto sarà dedicato al rock in tutte le sue declinazioni grazie al Mountain Sound Festival, il festival Made in Ossola che approderà per la sua quarta edizione a Tones Teatro Natura sabato 2 agosto: tanti ospiti intratterranno il pubblico con sonorità tra psichedelia, kraut-rock e le più varie declinazioni del rock. La stagione si chiuderà con Ossola in jazz a Ghesc - Le americane di Calvino e le sue improvvisazioni. Nel borgo di Ghesc a Montecrestese, le Lezioni americane di Italo Calvino prenderanno vita accompagnate dal ritmo jazz. In cinque set, nell'arco delle due giornate di sabato 6 e domenica 7 settembre, si alterneranno dodici musicisti jazz della scena locale e nazionale tra i più apprezzati, con la partecipazione della compagnia di danza ResExtensa e le voci di T.N.T. Teatro Nuovi Talenti.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarewww.ilpostodelleparole.itDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.

Littérature européenne, toujours ! L'édition 2025 de l'EUPL, prix de littérature de l'UE, a révélé ses mentions spéciales et sa lauréate le 16 mai 2025, à l'occasion de la foire du livre de Prague. La lauréate est italienne, elle s'appelle Nicoletta Verna et exerce la double casquette d'autrice et d'éditrice pour la maison Giunti, l'un des plus important groupes éditoriaux italiens. Avant de remporter l'EUPL, Nicoletta a écrit un autre roman, Il valore affettivo , lauréat de plusieurs prix prestigieux en Italie. Il a également été récompensé par une mention spéciale du prix Italo Calvino, attribué, vous vous en douterez, à des textes écrits dans l'esprit expérimental  du grand fabuliste italien. Le roman lauréat de l'EUPL, I giorni di Vetro (que l'on peut traduire très rapidement par « le jour de verre »), est publié aux éditions Einaudi Stile Libero. Il raconte l'histoire de Redenta, femme née en 1924 dans une communauté superstitieuse qui la considère comme porte-malheur en raison de la polio qui la frappe . Elle survit à la polio et grandit dans une Italie en pleine montée du fascisme, marquée par l'assassinat de Matteotti. Sa vie est traversée par la violence du régime, de la guerre et de la domination masculine. Ce roman oscille entre Histoire avec un grand H et histoire personnelle, mettant en lumière la manière dont la première influence la seconde. Résistance féminine, violence politique et quête de liberté traversent ce roman que nous pourrions bien découvrir en français dès l'année prochaine, comme Nicoletta le révèle en fin d'entretien. Du côté des mentions spéciales, ce sont  L'Irlandaise Sheila Armstrong pour Falling Animals (Bloomsbury)  et le Belge Philippe Marczewski pour Quand Cécile (Seuil) qui ont été récompensés. Ecoutons maintenant Nicoletta Verna. https://euprizeliterature.eu/en/prize-author/nicoletta-verna/***Soutenez Bookalicious (et recevez de beaux goodies) par ici : https://fr.tipeee.com/bookalicious-1Ce podcast fait partie du label Podcut ! Retrouvez les autres podcasts du label ici : www.podcut.studioHébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

A rare club mix from the ever-evolving artist, with 90 minutes of shadowy, atmospheric pressure. Music's therapeutic value is often linked to relaxation—gongs, singing bowls and the like. Dense passages of foggy droning and eerie static aren't traditionally considered restorative, but Laurel Halo makes a pretty good case for it. The Detroit-born, Los Angeles-based musician's abstract, often improvised productions are heavy on sound design and emotional climax. Driven by atmosphere rather than rhythm, they push listeners to grapple with their innermost insecurities, fears and dreams. "I'm lucky my music has helped people through crises," Halo once told Discwoman. It's easy to see why. Since her 2010 debut King Felix, Halo has built a stunningly diverse catalogue of classically-informed records. A multi-instrumentalist—piano, violin, guitar, keys—her sharpest instrument is arrangement. Inspired by the surrealism of Italo Calvino and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, her releases, from Atlas to Behind The Green Door, unfold with slow-burning narrative and dense emotional weight. Her soundworlds are layered and labyrinthine—an architectonic space where self-reflection happens almost by force. Even in the club, the sought-after composer excels in immersion. Her sets extend the expressionist palette of her records, trading traditional rhythm for tension, space and surprise. It's no wonder she takes a genre-agnostic approach to the dance floor—her deep roots in freeform radio began at WCBN-FM in Michigan, followed by Berlin Community Radio, Rinse FM, and now a regular show on NTS. RA.992 stitches foggy ambient loops, propulsive techno, mutant percussion and heady left turns with care. Tracks from DJ Rush, Octave One and Eddie Fowlkes nod to her Midwestern heritage, balanced out by deeper, psychedelic fare from the likes of Polygonia and Cousin. It's the mark of an artist revealing both deep curiosity and a precise hand as a selector. Rare, indeed. @laurelhalo Find the full interview at ra.co/podcast/992

‘With Potocki,' Italo Calvino wrote, ‘we can understand that the fantastic is the exploration of the obscure zone where the most unrestrained passions of desire and the terrors of guilt mix together.' The gothic is a central seam of the fantastic, and in this episode Marina and Adam turn to two writers in that mode who lived over a hundred years apart but drew on the period of the Napoleonic wars: Jan Potocki and Isak Dinesen (the pseudonym of Karen Blixen). Potocki's The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (1805) is a complex sequence of tales within tales, written from the point of view of the early 19th century but describing events in Spain in the 18th century. It's a powerful commentary on the preoccupations of the Enlightenment and the repression of historical guilt. In Seven Gothic Tales (1934), Dinesen confronts some of the most unsettling aspect of sexual guilt and desire with psychological astuteness. Adam and Marina discuss the ways in which, in both works, the gothic was able to explore areas of human experience that other genres struggled to accommodate.Non-subscribers will only hear an extract from this episode. To listen to the full episode, and all our other Close Readings series, subscribe:Directly in Apple Podcasts: https://lrb.me/applecrffIn other podcast apps: https://lrb.me/closereadingsffRead more in the LRB:On Potocki:⁠https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v17/n02/p.n.-furbank/nesting-time⁠On 'Out of Africa':⁠https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v08/n12/d.a.n.-jones/the-old-feudalist⁠On Denisen's letters:⁠https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v04/n10/errol-trzebinski/perfect-bliss-and-perfect-despair Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Silvana La Spina"Un rebus per Leonardo Sciascia"Marsilio Editoriwwwm.marsilioeditori.itNel settembre del 1985, a Leonardo Sciascia capitano due cose: la morte di Italo Calvino nell'Ospedale di Siena, e la morte di Aurelio Arriva, giudice, in casa sua. Una pistolettata: suicidio, dicono. Il giudice e lo scrittore siciliano, amici fin dall'infanzia, avevano litigato e non si parlavano da tempo. Qualcuno, in paese, continuava a dire per invidia; qualcun altro insinuava che l'invidia non c'entrava niente, era Sciascia che non avrebbe dovuto mettere l'amico in un libro – anzi, continuava quel qualcuno, Sciascia della Sicilia non avrebbe dovuto proprio parlare. Leonardo Sciascia, dal canto suo, sosteneva che le grandi amicizie, come i grandi amori, sono come le piante: a un certo punto si seccano, e nessuno può farci niente. Era successo con Guttuso, e forse stava succedendo pure con Vincenzo Consolo. Tuttavia, nonostante, in paese, gli inquirenti pensino che la morte del giudice Arriva sia dovuta a un suicidio e nonostante il tutto sia accaduto, come una disgrazia, un malaugurio, durante la festa della Madonna Bambina, Elena Arriva, la figlia del giudice morto, bella e bionda come certe madonne lombarde, si presenta a casa dello scrittore – la gloria, il vanto del luogo, l'uomo che passeggia a braccetto con Claudia Cardinale – per chiedergli di indagare sulla morte del padre. Elena non crede all'ipotesi del suicidio, e Sciascia è l'unico che di suo padre sa tutto. In una sarabanda di dicerie, malevolenze, lettere anonime che ricordano le righe minatorie di A ciascuno il suo, in un turbine di fatti di corna, disgrazie passate, presenti e future, donne vecchie e donne fatali, scrittori benevoli e altri invidiosi, cause perse e altre fatte perdere, un circolo di gentiluomini che non sempre lo sono e un pubblico ministero che torna a indagare là dove è stato bambino, Silvana La Spina, con una lingua pastosa e spinosa quanto un fico d'India, racconta Leonardo Sciascia e il suo mondo, facendone un investigatore acuto, curioso e pieno di pietà per le miserie degli uomini. Un romanzo avvincente e scuro.Silvana La Spina  è nata in Veneto da padre siciliano. Da molti anni vive tra Milano e Catania, e la Sicilia è alla base di quasi tutti i suoi romanzi. Tra gli ultimi, ricordiamo: La bambina pericolosa (Mondadori 2008), Un cadavere eccellente (Mondadori 2011), La continentale (Mondadori 2014), L'uomo che veniva da Messina (Giunti 2015), L'uomo del Viceré (Neri Pozza 2021), Angelica (Neri Pozza 2022), L'ombra dei Beati Paoli (Neri Pozza 2024). Con la raccolta di racconti Scirocco (La tartaruga 1992) ha vinto il premio Chiara.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarewww.ilpostodelleparole.itDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.

El 23 de abril se celebró el Día Internacional del Libro y nosotros lo festejamos en Letras en el Tiempo recomendando libros que nos hablan de otros libros. En este episodio recorremos las publicaciones en las que autores de la talla de Fernando Savater, Italo Calvino o Mario Vargas Llosa nos recomiendan sus lecturas más preciadas. Gracias por escucharnos.

Un'autrice è ospite del podcast oggi: Enrica Ferrara ci parla del suo romanzo d'esordio “Mia madre aveva una cinquecento gialla”. E poi una bella conversazione su parole, anni di piombo, infanzia e struttura narrativa.Enrica Ferrara è scrittrice, insegnante e traduttrice. È nata a Napoli ma vive a Dublino da oltre vent'anni. Ha pubblicato numerosi saggi su letteratura e cinema, in particolare su Italo Calvino, Elena Ferrante, Natalia Ginzburg, Pier Paolo Pasolini e Domenico Starnone. Lavora al Trinity College e collabora con l'Istituto Italiano di Cultura a Dublino. Mia madre aveva una Cinquecento gialla è il suo primo romanzo.Ti piacciono i miei contenuti? Iscriviti alla newlsetter: https://www.subscribepage.com/speakitaliano_podcast

Dror Mishani, né le 23 juin 1975 à Holon, est un écrivain, traducteur israélien. Il est également universitaire et spécialiste de l'histoire du roman policier. Il est l'auteur d'une série de romans noirs dont le héros est l'inspecteur de police Avraham Avraham, traduite en plus de 15 langues, dont l'anglais, le suédois, l'allemand et le français. Son nouveau livre « Au ras du sol, journal d'un écrivain en temps de guerre », traduit par Laurence Sendrowicz, est publié chez Gallimard. Un texte dont il parle en français ans cet entretien. Laurence Sendrowicz (Traduction)Le matin du 7 octobre 2023, à Toulouse, Dror Mishani découvre le message de sa femme : « Bonjour, ici, c'est un sacré bordel. » Il envisage tout, sauf cette attaque du Hamas… Dans l'avion qui le ramène à Tel-Aviv en Israël, il commence à rédiger un article : « Peut-être faut-il reconnaître la puissance du coup porté et la profondeur de notre douleur, reconnaître la défaite, ne pas essayer de l'escamoter sous ce qui aura l'air, à court terme, d'une victoire, mais qui ne sera qu'un engrenage de souffrances. »Ces lignes sont au cœur d'un journal intime qui décrit, pendant six mois, la vie quotidienne en temps de guerre et expose les sentiments complexes d'un père de famille israélien marié à une Polonaise catholique ; un intellectuel pacifiste passant, aux yeux de certains proches, pour un traître ; un romancier écrasé par la politique qui craint de ne plus jamais pouvoir écrire et qui, pour ne pas sombrer, « cherche refuge dans la lecture des catastrophes des autres » — Natalia Ginzburg, Italo Calvino, Stefan Zweig, Emmanuel Carrère... (Présentation des éditions Gallimard)Illustration musicale : The Departure de Max Richter.

Italo Calvino's novella Invisible Cities is a hypnagogic reimagining of Marco Polo's time in the court of Kublai Khan. Polo describes 55 impossible places – cities made of plumbing, free-floating, overwhelmed by rubbish, buried underground – that reveal something true about every city. Marina and Anna Della read Invisible Cities alongside the Travels of Marco Polo, and explore how both blur the lines between reality and fantasy, storyteller and audience. They discuss the connections between Calvino's love of fairytales and his anti-fascist politics, and why he saw the fantastic as a mode of truth-telling.Non-subscribers will only hear an extract from this episode. To listen to the full episode, and all our other Close Readings series, subscribe:Directly in Apple Podcasts: https://lrb.me/applecrffIn other podcast apps: https://lrb.me/closereadingsffFurther reading in the LRB:Salman Rushdie: Calvinohttps://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v03/n17/salman-rushdie/calvinoJames Butler: Infinite Artichokehttps://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n12/james-butler/infinite-artichokeJonathan Coe: Calvinoismhttps://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v14/n06/jonathan-coe/calvinoismNext episode: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.Marina Warner is a writer of history, fiction and criticism whose many books include Stranger Magic, Forms of Enchantment and Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale. She was awarded the Holberg Prize in 2015 and is a contributing editor at the LRB.Anna Della Subin's study of men who unwittingly became deities, Accidental Gods, was published in 2022. She has been writing for the LRB since 2014. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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durée : 00:42:02 - Les Nuits de France Culture - par : Mathilde Wagman - "Un livre des voix" propose en 1981 un entretien avec l'écrivain italien Italo Calvino qui explique le concept de son roman "Si par une nuit d'hiver un voyageur", tandis que des comédiens illustrent ses propos par une lecture d'extraits de ce roman très original en forme de mises en abyme. - réalisation : Virginie Mourthé - invités : Italo Calvino écrivain italien

our next second-person novel is if on a winter's night a traveler by italo calvino, which features an all-time great first chapter. before we talk about the novel, though, we simply must talk about the season 5 trailer for “you.” we then talk about incarnations of the text's “gimmick” in other mediums, whether this is a “horny book for dudes,” and how long a postmodern text can exist before its schtick becomes tiring. we lament a second person element lost in the english language, talk about the text's charlie kaufman-esque elements, and admire its prescience around generative ai. shreds talks about the oulipo gathering. we ask: what do you want in a bookstore? rip david lynch. reading list for season thirteen interior chinatown by charles yu if on a winter's night a traveler by italo calvino bright lights, big city by jay mcinerney suicide by édouard levé the malady of death by marguerite duras how like a god by rex stout the diver's clothes lie empty by vendela vida the night circus by erin morgenstern a man asleep by georges perec open water by caleb azumah nelson

Jonathan Swift's 1726 tale of Houyhnhnms, Yahoos, Lilliputians and Struldbruggs is normally seen as a satire. But what if it's read as fantasy, and all its contradictions, inversions and reversals as an echo of the traditional starting point of Arabic fairytale: ‘It was and it was not'? In this episode Marina and Anna Della discuss Gulliver's Travels as a text in which empiricism and imagination are tightly woven, where fantastical realms are created to give different perspectives on reality and both writer and reader are liberated from having to decide what to think.Non-subscribers will only hear an extract from this episode. To listen to the full episode, and all our other Close Readings series, subscribe:Directly in Apple Podcasts: https://lrb.me/applecrffIn other podcast apps: https://lrb.me/closereadingsffFurther reading in the LRB:Terry Eagleton:https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v23/n16/terry-eagleton/a-spot-of-firm-governmentClare Bucknell: Oven-Ready Childrenhttps://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v39/n02/clare-bucknell/oven-ready-childrenThomas Keymer: Carry Up your Coffee Boldlyhttps://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v36/n08/thomas-keymer/carry-up-your-coffee-boldlyNext episode: Marco Polo's Il Milione and Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities.Marina Warner is a writer of history, fiction and criticism whose many books include Stranger Magic, Forms of Enchantment and Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale. She was awarded the Holberg Prize in 2015 and is a contributing editor at the LRB.Anna Della Subin's study of men who unwittingly became deities, Accidental Gods, was published in 2022. She has been writing for the LRB since 2014. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From glistening skyscrapers and bustling downtowns to dark alleys and creeping urban decay, cities are endlessly complicated and diverse. And so are the books that take place in urban settings. This week, we share some of our favorite city books and chat about what makes these environments so fascinating. What are your favorites?ShownotesBooks* Pink Slime, by Fernanda Trías, translated by Heather Cleary* Middlemarch, by George Eliot* Lies and Sorcery, by Elsa Morante, translated by Jenny McPhee* Swann's Way, by Marcel Proust* Wind and Truth, by Brandon Sanderson* The Suicides, by Antonio Di Benedetto, translated by Esther Allen* Zama, by Antonio Di Benedetto, translated by Esther Allen* The Silentiary, by Antonio Di Benedetto, translated by Esther Allen* Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver* A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith* The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros* A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole* The Passenger, by Cormac McCarthy* The City and the City, by China Miéville* Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity, by Katherine Boo* The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, by Ursula K. Le Guin* My Brilliant Friend, by Elena Ferrante, translated by Anne Goldstein* Lush Life, by Richard Price* Solenoid, by Mircea Cǎrtǎrescu, translated by Sean Cotter* Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolfe* Ask the Dust, by John Fante* One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Máquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa* Anniversaries, by Uwe Johnson, translated by Damion Searls* Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck* Ulysses, by James Joyce* New York Trilogy, by Paul Auster* Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke* It, by Stephen King* The Virgin Suicides, by Jeffrey Eugenides* Open City, by Teju Cole* Bleak House, by Charles Dickens* The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larsen* Midaq Alley, by Naguib Mahfouz, translated by Trevor Le Gassick* The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, by Michael Chabon* Berlin Alexanderplatz, by Alfred Döblin, translated by Michael Hoffman* Down and Out in London, by George Orwell* City of Saints and Madmen, by Jeff Vandermeer* Cairo Trilogy, by Naguib Mahfouz, translated by William Maynard Hutchins, Olive E. Kenny, Lorne M. Kenny, and Angele Botros Samaan* The Alexandria Quartet, by Lawrence Durrell* London, by Edward Rutherford* Dublin, by Edward Rutherford* New York, by Edward Rutherford* Paris, by Edward RutherfordThe Mookse and the Gripes Podcast is a book chat podcast. Every other week Paul and Trevor get together to talk about some bookish topic or another. We hope you'll continue to join us!Many thanks to those who helped make this possible! If you'd like to donate as well, you can do so on Substack or on our Patreon page. These subscribers get periodic bonus episode and early access to all episodes! Every supporter has their own feed that he or she can use in their podcast app of choice to download our episodes a few days early. Please go check it out! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mookse.substack.com/subscribe

His earlier episodes on this show have been huge hits, and as he completes a trilogy of books, he returns to complete a trilogy of episodes. Amitava Kumar joins Amit Varma in episode 408 of The Seen and the Unseen to talk about writing, noticing, painting, travelling, trees, and unfulfilled train journeys. (FOR FULL LINKED SHOW NOTES, GO TO SEENUNSEEN.IN.) Also check out 1. Amitava Kumar on Instagram, Substack, Twitter, Amazon, Vassar, Granta and his own website. 2. The Green Book: An Observer's Notebook -- Amitava Kumar. 3. Amitava Kumar Finds the Breath of Life — Episode 265 of The Seen and the Unseen. 4. Amitava Kumar Finds His Kashmiri Rain -- Episode 364 of The Seen and the Unseen. 5. The Blue Book: A Writer's Journal — Amitava Kumar. 6. The Yellow Book: A Traveller's Diary — Amitava Kumar. 7. My Beloved Life: A Novel -- Amitava Kumar. 8. A Million Mutinies Now -- VS Naipaul. 9. The Trees — Philip Larkin. 10. Before the Storm -- Amitava Kumar. 11. Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages — Peggy Mohan. 12. Understanding India Through Its Languages — Episode 232 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Peggy Mohan). 13. A Suitable Boy -- Vikram Seth. 14. Caste, Capitalism and Chandra Bhan Prasad — Episode 296 of The Seen and the Unseen. 15. ‘Indian languages carry the legacy of caste' — Chandra Bhan Prasad interviewed by Sheela Bhatt. 16. The Refreshing Audacity of Vinay Singhal — Episode 291 of The Seen and the Unseen. 17. Stage.in. 18. Laapataa Ladies -- Kiran Rao. 19. Kanthapura -- Raja Rao. 20. All About H Hatterr -- GV Desani. 21. From Phansi Yard: My Year with the Women of Yerawada -- Sudha Bharadwaj. 22. India is Broken -- Ashoka Mody. 23. Being Mortal -- Atul Gawande. 24. Earwitness to Place -- Bernie Krause interviewed by Erin Robinsong. 25. All That Breathes -- Shaunak Sen. 26. Frog: 1 Poetry: 0 -- Amitava Kumar. 27. The Heat Will Kill You First -- Jeff Goodell. 28. Danish Husain and the Multiverse of Culture — Episode 359 of The Seen and the Unseen. 29. The Artist's Way -- Julia Cameron. 30. An excerpt from Wittgenstein's diary — Parul Sehgal on Twitter. 31. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus — Ludwig Wittgenstein. 32. Burdock -- Janet Malcolm. 33. Hermit in Paris — Italo Calvino. 34. Objects From Our Past -- Episode 77 of Everything is Everything. 35. The Wisden Book of Test Cricket (1877-1977) — Compiled & edited by Bill Frindall. 36. Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India — Akshaya Mukul. 37. The Gita Press and Hindu Nationalism — Episode 139 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Akshaya Mukul). 38. The Ferment of Our Founders — Episode 272 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Kapila). 39. Private Truths, Public Lies — Timur Kuran. 40. The Incredible Insights of Timur Kuran — Episode 349 of The Seen and the Unseen. 41. Bhavni Bhavai -- Ketan Mehta. 42. All We Imagine as Light -- Payal Kapadia. 43. Secondhand Time -- Svetlana Alexievich. 44. Amitava Kumar's post with Danish Husain's postcard. 45. Fire Weather -- John Vaillant. 46. Ill Nature -- Joy Williams. 47. Hawk -- Joy Williams. This episode is sponsored by Rang De, a platform that enables individuals to invest in farmers, rural entrepreneurs and artisans. Amit Varma and Ajay Shah have launched a new course called Life Lessons, which aims to be a launchpad towards learning essential life skills all of you need. For more details, and to sign up, click here. Amit and Ajay also bring out a weekly YouTube show, Everything is Everything. Have you watched it yet? You must! And have you read Amit's newsletter? Subscribe right away to The India Uncut Newsletter! It's free! Also check out Amit's online course, The Art of Clear Writing. Episode art: ‘Gulmohar' by Simahina.

Marina Warner is joined by Anna Della Subin to introduce Fiction and the Fantastic, a new Close Readings series running through 2025. Marina describes the scope of the series, in which she will also be joined by Adam Thirlwell and Chloe Aridjis. Together, Anna Della and Marina discuss the ways the fiction of wonder and astonishment can challenge social conventions and open up new ways of living.The first episode will come out on Monday 13 January, on The Thousand and One Nights.Marina Warner is a writer of history, fiction and criticism whose many books include Stranger Magic, Forms of Enchantment and Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale. She was awarded the Holberg Prize in 2015 and is a contributing editor at the LRB.Anna Della Subin's study of men who unwittingly became deities, Accidental Gods, was published in 2022. She has been writing for the LRB since 2014.The first four texts:The Thousand and One Nights (Yasmine Seale's translation)Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's TravelsThe Travels of Marco Polo (no particular translation) and Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities (William Weaver translation)Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lea Vélez encontró varias cajas de cintas magnetofónicas guardadas en la bodega de una casa familiar durante cuarenta años. Eran entrevistas a Cortázar, Borges, Susan Sontag, Italo Calvino, Umbral, Marguerite Duras...Su padre, Carlos Vélez , dirigió "Encuentros con las letras" en TVE.  Las cintas eran enviadas a su madre, María Luisa Martín, que las escuchaba en la cocina y escribía las notas de prensa del programa con una Olivetti. Lea era la niña que jugaba debajo de la mesa. 

For our final episode of 2024, we finish our annual best of the year extravaganza! Here we are joined by more friends sharing their favorite reads of the year as we go through our top five.Happy New Year! We will see you in 2025!ShownotesBooks* The Overstory, by Richard Powers* Septology, by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls* A Shining, by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls* Boathouse, by Jon Fosse, translated by May-Brit Akerholt* Scenes from a Childhood, by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls* Trilogy, by Jon Fosse, translated by May-Brit Akerholt* Aliss at the Fire, by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls* Morning and Evening, by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls* We Need to Talk About Kevin, by Lionel Shriver* Big Brother, by Lionel Shriver* The Stripping of the Altars, by Eamon Duffy * Scenes from Clerical Life, by George Eliot* Daniel Deronda, by George Eliot* Possession, by A.S. Byatt* Parade's End, by Ford Madox Ford* David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens* Frog, by Stephen Dixon* I., by Stephen Dixon* The MANIAC, by Benjamín Labatut* When We Cease to Understand the World, by Benjamín Labatut, translated by Adrian Nathan West* A Game of Hide and Seek, by Elizabeth Taylor* Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, by Elizabeth Taylor* Angel, by Elizabeth Taylor* It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over, by Anne de Marcken* The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, by Beth Brower* A Touch of Mistletoe, by Barbara Comyns* Mr. Fox, by Barbara Comyns* Cold Nights of Childhood, by Tezer Özlü, translated by Maureen Freely* Your Little Matter: My Mother, a News Item, by Maria Grazia Calandrone, translated by Antonella Lettieri* My Favorite, by Sarah Jollien-Fardel, translated by Holly James* Götz and Meyer, by David Albahari, translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac* Escape from Berlin, by Catherine Klein* February 1933: The Winter of Literature, by Use Wittstock, translated by Daniel Bowles* Pilgrimage, by Dorothy Richardson* War and Peace, by Leo Tolstory* The Tunnel, by William H. Gass* A Cage Went in Search of a Bird: Ten Kafkaesque Stories* All That Glitters, by Orlando Whitfield* Lesser Ruins, by Mark Haber* Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver* If on a winter's night a traveller . . . , by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver* The Baron in the Trees, by Italo Calvino, translated by Ann Goldstein* Doctor Thorne, by Anthony Trollope* The Warden, by Anthony Trollope* Barchester Towers, by Anthony Trollope* The Way We Live Now, by Anthony Trollope* Grief Is the Thing With Feathers, by Max Porter* The Call of the Wild, by Jack London* “To Build a Fire,” by Jack London* Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life, by Sofia Samatar* Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner & Rosamond Lehmann, by Harriet Baker* Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, by Naomi Klein* A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria, by Caroline Crampton* A Month in the Country, by J.L. Baker* The Passenger, by Cormac McCarthy* Stella Maris, by Cormac McCarthy* Suttree, by Cormac McCarthy* Blood Meridian; or, The Evening Redness in the West, by Cormac McCarthyThe Mookse and the Gripes Podcast is a book chat podcast. Every other week Paul and Trevor get together to talk about some bookish topic or another. We hope you'll continue to join us!Many thanks to those who helped make this possible! If you'd like to donate as well, you can do so on Substack or on our Patreon page. These subscribers get periodic bonus episode and early access to all episodes! Every supporter has their own feed that he or she can use in their podcast app of choice to download our episodes a few days early. Please go check it out! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mookse.substack.com/subscribe

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Italian author of Invisible Cities, If On A Winter's Night A Traveller, Cosmicomics and other celebrated novels, fables and short stories of the 20th Century. Calvino (1923 -1985) had a passionate belief that writing and art could make life better for everyone. Despite his parents being scientists, who dearly wanted him to be a scientist too, and his time fighting with the Partisans in Liguria in WWII during which his parents were held hostage by the Nazis, Calvino turned away from realism in his writing. Ideally, he said, he would have liked to be alive in the Enlightenment. He moved towards the fantastical, drawing on his childhood reading while collecting a huge number of the fables of Italy and translating them from dialect into Italian to enrich the shared culture of his fellow citizens. His fresh perspective on the novel continues to inspire writers and delight readers in Italian and in translations around the world.With Guido Bonsaver Professor of Italian Cultural History at the University of OxfordJennifer Burns Professor of Italian Studies at the University of WarwickAndBeatrice Sica Associate Professor in Italian Studies at UCLProducer: Simon TillotsonReading list: Elio Baldi, The Author in Criticism: Italo Calvino's Authorial Image in Italy, the United States, and the United Kingdom (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2020)Elio Baldi and Cecilia Schwartz, Circulation, Translation and Reception Across Borders: Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities Around the World (Routledge, 2024)Peter Bondanella and Andrea Ciccarelli (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel (Cambridge University Press, 2003), especially the chapter ‘Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco: Postmodern Masters'James Butler, ‘Infinite Artichoke' (London Review of Books, vol. 45, no. 12, 15 June 2023)Italo Calvino (trans. Martin McLaughlin), The Path to the Spiders' Nests (first published 1947; Penguin Classics, 2009)Italo Calvino (trans. Mikki Taylor), The Baron in the Trees (first published 1957; Vintage Classics, 2021)Italo Calvino, Marcovaldo (first published 1963; Vintage Classics, 2023) Italo Calvino (trans. William Weaver and Ann Goldstein), Difficult Loves and Other Stories (first published 1970; Vintage Classics, 2018)Italo Calvino (trans. William Weaver), Invisible Cities (first published 1972; Vintage Classics, 1997)Italo Calvino (trans. Patrick Creagh), The Uses of Literature (first published 1980; Houghton Mifflin, 1987)Italo Calvino (trans. Geoffrey Brock), Six Memos for the Next Millennium (first published 1988; Penguin Classics, 2016) Italo Calvino (trans. Tim Parks), The Road to San Giovanni (first published 1990; HMH Books, 2014) Italo Calvino (trans. Ann Goldstein), The Written World and the Unwritten World: Essays (Mariner Books Classics, 2023)Kathryn Hume, Calvino's Fictions: Cogito and Cosmos (Clarendon Press, 1992)Martin McLaughlin, Italo Calvino (Edinburgh University Press, 1998)In Our Time is a BBC Studios Audio Production

Il pane può essere un progetto di design? Ma forse anche un progetto di vita? Ne parliamo con Laura Lazzaroni, giornalista, scrittrice e consulente nel mondo della panificazione. Dalla sua esperienza internazionale tra Milano, New York e Roma, Laura ci accompagna in un viaggio tra antiche varietà di grano, tecniche di panificazione e la progettualità dietro un alimento che troppo spesso diamo per scontato. Pane e giornalismo si intrecciano in un appassionato racconto che esplora successi e fallimenti, scoperte e illuminazioni, passione per la scoperta e per la sorpresa, ma anche incontri con Enzo Mari, Zaha Hadid, Niko Romito, Carol Choi, Elena Reygadas e molti altri. E soprattutto, se non sapete cosa fare… fate dei flatbread!I link della puntata: L'account Instagram di Laura https://www.instagram.com/lauralazzaroni_ “Dieci lezioni di cucina” di Niko Romito e Laura Lazzaroni https://giunti.it/products/dieci-lezioni-di-cucina-romito-niko-9788809859920  “Altri Grani, Altri Pani” di Laura Lazzaroni https://www.guidotommasi.it/guido-tommasi-editore/catalogo/altri-grani-altri-pani “La formula del pane” di Laura Lazzaroni https://giunti.it/products/la-formula-del-pane-lazzaroni-laura-9788809911000 “The New Cucina Italiana” di Laura Lazzaroni https://www.hoepli.it/libro/new-cucina-italiana/9780847868551.html Il sito di Niko Romito https://www.nikoromito.com Il sito di Davide Longoni https://www.davidelongoni.com  Rantan, la microfattoria con tavolo dello chef di Carol Choi e Francesco Scarrone https://rantan.it Rosetta, il ristorante di Elena Reygadas https://rosetta.com.mx  Hypertrattoria, festival dedicato alla trattoria contemporanea https://www.instagram.com/hypertrattoria/  Il primo libro suggerito da Laura: “Marcovaldo ovvero Le stagioni in città” di Italo Calvino https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcovaldo_ovvero_Le_stagioni_in_città Il secondo libro suggerito da Laura: “La Talpa” di John le Carré https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_talpa_(Le_Carré)  

Latino USA: A Cartoon History, Revised Edition (Hachette Book Group, 2024) escrito por Ilan Stavans e ilustrado por Lalo Alcaraz, enfrenta los desafíos de capturar las alegrías, los matices y las múltiples dimensiones de la cultura latina dentro del contexto del idioma inglés. En esta historia en forma de caricatura, Stavans busca combinar la solemnidad de literatura y la historia con la naturaleza inherentemente teatral y humorística de los cómics. Los temas abarcan a Colón, el Destino Manifiesto, el Álamo, William Carlos Williams, Desi Arnaz, West Side Story, Castro, Guevara, Neruda, García Márquez, el éxodo del Mariel y Selena, entre otros. Entrevista realizada por Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, Catedrático de Humanidades, Universidad de Puerto Rico-Mayagüez y Annette Martínez-Iñesta, coordinadora del grupo focal de lenguaje del Instituto Nuevos Horizontes. Temas, estudiosos, libros y otros recursos mencionados en esta conversación: Para leer al pato Donald. Comunicación de masas y colonialismo y Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey por Ariel Dorfman. Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language por Ilan Stavans. Una Tanovic, Universidad de Massachusetts. Heidi Landecker, Chronicle of Higher Education. Baruch Vergara, artista, Universidad de Puerto Rico-Mayagüez. La Teagle Foundation apoya a actividades realizadas en español. La Mellon Foundation hace lo mismo, y recibe propuestas y realiza revisión a pares en español. Alan Lightman, Einstein's Dreams (conversaciones en español e inglés). UPR-M, Jewish on Campus / Cultura judía en Puerto Rico y el Caribe. Ceremonia para la Calle Luis Bravo Pardo, Mayagüez (“los primeros judíos no conversos en entrar a territorio español”). El judío mayagüezano: vida y obra de Luis Bravo Pardo, por Héctor Bravo Vick. Italo Calvino, Ciudades Invisibles. Uso de “X” en español e inglés. Academic Imperialism, por Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera y Héctor José Huyke. El inglés-centrismo en la cultura universitaria en EE.UU. Héctor José, Huyke, Gloria Anzaldúa, Cormac McCarthy. Reflexiones sobre la crítica de Natalia Bustos. Carlos Fuentes. Dante. Leonardo Sciascia. Lo que se puede contar con imágenes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Perhaps best known for his novels Motherless Brooklyn (1999), The Fortress of Solitude (2003), and Chronic City (2009)—or, more recently, Brooklyn Crime Novel (2023)—the author, essayist, and cultural critic Jonathan Lethem could be considered the ultimate modern-day Brooklyn bard, even if today he lives in California, where he's a professor of English and creative writing at Pomona College. His most celebrated books take place in Brooklyn, or in the case of Chronic City, on Manhattan's Upper East Side, and across his genre-spanning works of fiction, his narratives capture a profound sense of the rich chaos and wonder to be found in an urban existence. Lethem is also the author of several essay collections, including the newly published Cellophane Bricks: A Life in Visual Culture (ZE Books), which compiles much of his art writing from over the years written in response to—and often in exchange for—artworks by friends, including Gregory Crewdson, Nan Goldin, and Raymond Pettibon.On the episode, Lethem discusses his passion for book dedications; the time he spent with James Brown and Bob Dylan, respectively, when profiling them for Rolling Stone in the mid-aughts; how his work is, in part, a way of dealing with and healing from his mother's death in 1978, at age 36; and why he views his writing as “fundamentally commemorative.”Special thanks to our Season 10 presenting sponsor, L'École, School of Jewelry Arts.Show notes:Jonathan Lethem[5:35] Cellophane Bricks[5:35] High School of Music and Art[5:35] Motherless Brooklyn[5:35] The Fortress of Solitude[5:35] The Disappointment Artist[5:35] Maureen Linker[7:15] Carmen Fariña[8:26] Julia Jacquette[8:26] Rosalyn Drexler[9:08] The Great Gatsby[9:08] Brooklyn Crime Novel[10:59] Lynn Nottage[13:08] Bennington College[13:08] Bret Easton Ellis[13:08] Donna Tartt[23:41] The Collapsing Frontier[23:41] Italo Calvino[23:41] Cold War[23:41] Red Scare[23:41] J. Edgar Hoover[27:37] Dada movement[27:37] Ernest Hemingway[27:37] Gertrude Stein[27:37] Dissident Gardens[29:38] Reaganism[29:38] “Does intergenerational transmission of trauma skip a generation?”[31:21] John Van Bergen[31:21] Nan Goldin[34:33] “The Ecstasy of Influence”[34:33] Lawrence Lessig[35:31] Copyleft movement[35:31] Hank Shocklee[38:46] Hoyt-Schermerhorn Station[42:32] “Being James Brown: Inside the Private World of the Baddest Man Who Ever Lived”[42:32] “The Genius and Modern Times of Bob Dylan”[51:00] Chronic City[54:04] The Thalia[55:50] “Lightness” by Italo Calvino[1:06:26] Jorge Luis Borges

"Don't be afraid to make something." The DJ and composer discusses the vulnerability of the creative process, returning to the piano and touring her latest album. Laurel Halo has been circling around the club music world for a number of years, but she's only recently entered the echelons of jazz and contemporary classical. Originally from Michigan, she went to music school in New York before moving to Berlin, and now Los Angeles, where she composed her 2023 album, Atlas—a release that's been met with widespread critical acclaim. She also played alongside Moritz von Oswald in his jazz outfit the Moritz von Oswald Trio, and released a number of eclectic, UK-tinged dance floor records on underground giants like Hyperdub and Livity Sound. In this RA Exchange, Laurel Halo discusses the new direction of her music and what it's been like to tour it live with cellist Leila Bordreuil. She also talks about her creative inspiration (namely, the Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul and books by surrealist writers like Ursula K. Le Guin and Italo Calvino), the practice of aesthetic minimalism more generally and the methods she uses to create subtle variations in pieces that are slow to evolve. Listen to the episode in full.

In an episode we last featured on our Radiolab for Kids Feed back in 2020, and in honor of its blocking out the Sun for a bit of us for a bit last week, in this episode, we're gonna talk more about the moon. According to one theory, (psst listen to The Moon Itself if you want to know more) the moon formed when a Mars-sized chunk of rock collided with Earth, the moon coalesced out of the debris from that impact. And it was MUCH closer to Earth than it is today. This idea is taken to its fanciful limit in Italo Calvino's story "The Distance of the Moon" (from his collection Cosmicomics, translated by William Weaver). Read by Liev Schreiber, the story is narrated by a character with the impossible-to-pronounce name Qfwfq, and tells of a strange crew who jump between Earth and moon, and sometimes hover in the nether reaches of gravity between the two.This reading was part of a live event hosted by Radiolab and Selected Shorts, and it originally aired on WNYC's and PRI's SELECTED SHORTS, hosted by BD Wong and paired with a Ray Bradbury classic, “All Summer in a Day,” read by musical theater star Michael Cerveris.Our newsletter comes out every Wednesday. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up (https://radiolab.org/newsletter)!Radiolab is supported by listeners like you. Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab (https://members.radiolab.org/) today.Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @radiolab, and share your thoughts with us by emailing radiolab@wnyc.org.Leadership support for Radiolab's science programming is provided by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation Initiative, and the John Templeton Foundation. Foundational support for Radiolab was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.