http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/2002/11/23#italo-calvino <ul>Recommended: <ul>By Calvino: <li><citE>The Castle of Crossed Destinies</cite></li> <li><cite>Cosmicomics</cite></li> <li><cite>Invisible Cities</cite></li> <li><cite>Mr. Palomar</cite></li> <li><cite>The Path to the Nest of Spiders</cite></li> <li><cite>Six Memos for the Next Millennium</cite></li> <li><cite>The Watcher and Other Stories</cite></li> </ul> <ul>About Calvino: <li>A good <a href="http://www.emory.edu/EDUCATION/mfp/cal.html">site dedicated to Calvino</a> <li>Bruce Sterling, <a href="http://www.infinitematrix.net/columns/sterling/sterling55.html">Invisible Cities</a> <li><a href="gore-vidal.html">Gore Vidal</a> [Both are in Vidal's essay collection <cite>United States</cite>; thanks to <a href="http://tesugen.com/">Peter Lindberg</a> for the links] <ul> <li>"<a href="http://www.emory.edu/EDUCATION/mfp/novels.html">Calvino's Novels</a>" <li>"<a href="http://www.emory.edu/EDUCATION/mfp/eulogy.html">Calvino's Death</a>" </ul> </ul> </ul> <ul>To read: <li><cite>Adam, one afternoon and other stories</cite> <li><cite>The Baron in the Trees</cite> <li><cite>The Cloven Viscount and the Nonexistant Knight</cite> <li><cite>Difficult Loves</cite> <li><cite>If on a Winter's Night a Traveller</cite> <li><cite>Italian Folktales</cite> <li><cite>Marcovaldo, or, The Seasons in the City</cite> <li><cite>Numbers in the Dark</cite> <li><cite>The Road to San Giovanni</cite> <li><cite>Tau Zero</cite> <li><cite>Under the Jaguar Sun</cite> <li><cite>The Uses of Literature</cite> <li><cite>Why Read the Classics?</cite> </ul>