Name: Italo Calvino reading from Invisible Cities, Mr. Palomar and other collections | 92Y Readings by The 92nd Street Y, New York in stories
Duration: 1 h 26 min 47 s
Description: Recorded March 31, 1983 at 92nd Street Y.

These literary treasures, I would've thought were impossible to enrich -- but then I opened my ears to this tobacco-flavored lightness, exactitude, quickness, etc., quite inimitable.

so pleasant to hear the voice of this baron, knight and viscount. he is unique!

Much Obliged! never heard his voice before, adore this book

where is the italian text reading referred to in his intro tho?

stories

Donald Sturrock, the official biographer of Roald Dahl, talks to us about the author's short stories. Roald Dahl's complete collection of surprising and sinister tales is out now in two volumes.

About the first collection:
Roald Dahl is one of the most popular writers of the modern age, effortlessly writing for children and adults alike. In this, the first of two volumes chronologically collecting all his published adult short stories, we see how Dahl began by using his experiences in the war to write fiction but quickly turned to his powerful and dark imagination to pen some of the most unsettling and disquieting tales ever written.

In 27 stories, written between 1944 and 1953, we encounter such classic tales as 'Man from the South', featuring a wager with appalling consequences; 'Lamb to the Slaughter', in which a wife murders her husband yet has a novel idea for throwing the police off the scent; and in 'The Sound Machine', the horrific truth about plants is revealed.

Enter the sinister, twisted world of Roald Dahl: you'll never want to leave.

AUTHOR TALK: Donald Sturrock, the official biographer of Roald Dahl, on his short stories

Recorded March 31, 1983 at 92nd Street Y.

Italo Calvino reading from Invisible Cities, Mr. Palomar and other collections | 92Y Readings

(Elevation's gentrified algorithm still more sauce than your feed of ignorance)

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Background, context, and poem text: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/05/28/keeping-quiet-sylvia-boorstein-reads-pablo-neruda

Excerpted from https://soundcloud.com/onbeing/what-we-nurture-with-sylvia

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Sylvia Boorstein reads "Keeping Quiet" by Pablo Neruda

"The arrows of adverse criticism cannot scratch, let alone pierce, the shield of what disappointed archers call my 'self-assurance.'"

Background and context:  http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/01/18/vladimir-nabokov-james-mossman-interview/

Vladimir Nabokov on literature and life (1969)

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Italo Calvino reading from Invisible Cities, Mr. Palomar and other collections | 92Y Readings

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