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Ward developed a temporary project with students titled “Canopy,” which consisted of two weeks of recorded readings of “Invisible Cities,” by Italo Calvino, broadcast through speakers hidden in the trees. According to Cathleen McCormick, director of programs at the OFA, the exhibition helped to create a sense of a commons for the Harvard and Cambridge communities...
...plant manufactures a drug called Cerazyme, which treats a rare genetic disorder called Gaucher’s disease, and Genzyme plans to keep producing the drug there for a “long time,” said Genzyme executive John Calvino...
Amerika teaches digital art at the University of Colorado, where his students develop works that straddle the lines between art, film and literature. "I tell them not to get caught up in mere plot," he says. Some avant-garde writers--Julio Cortazar, Italo Calvino--have also experimented with novels that wander out of their author's control. "But what makes the Net so exciting," says Amerika, "is that you can add sound, randomly generated links, 3-D modeling, animation." That room of one's own is turning into a fun house...
While Nests is a very good debut novel,it does not hold up next to Calvino's later work.The characters are thin. Chapter nine is anespecially egregious error: Here Calvinointroduces a new character, has him pedanticallyexplain the morality of the situation and thendrops him. But the book survives. It remains amoving portrait of the confusion and surreality ofwartime and of a little boy lost. If, ultimately,it is more interesting as an artifact of Calvino'syouth, that does not detract from its merit as anovel...
Towards the end of the preface, Calvino writes,"Perhaps, in the end, it is only your first bookthat counts, perhaps you should only write thatone and stop...the opportunity to express yourreal self happens only once, what you have to sayinside you is either said at that point ornevermore." Calvino's life demonstrates theuntruth of that statement. Nests is notCalvino's best book and is not where he expresseshis "real self" most interestingly. What makesNests worth-while for Calvino connoisseursis that his early work reveals a part of himselfthat is distinctly more personal from what thereader sees in his later...