Episode 12 of A Plunge Into Calvino is online - a 2-part interview with MichaelSalu editor of the new book (out today!) Cybernetics, or Ghosts? - an anthology of stories inspired by Calvino's essay Cybernetics and Ghosts. A real treat - part 1 here; open.spotify.com/show/41IrJekTj…

Thank-you.

If you haven't checked out the latest episodes from the Calvino podcast, please do so! The last three, focusing on Calvino's relationship with his father, and then a pair of episodes riffing on a new anthology and one of Calvino's essays, are fascinating listening!!

'Cybernetics, or Ghosts?' available to ship EU/UK and US through Asterism Books & Public Knowledge Books. shorturl.at/OzPfN @sub

"Officially, what happened in the story hadn’t happened and the story didn’t exist. It had never been compiled and was never to be uttered outside official hearings. In this matter, secrecy was of paramount importance." Subtext Recordings clereviewofbooks.com/writing/from-c…

This was a fascinating conversation covering a side of Calvino not as often discussed as others. I think it's well-worth your time.

As an extract from fabulous editor MichaelSalu's anthology, CYBERNETICS, OR GHOSTS?, published by Subtext Recordings, my story "Ghosts of a Third" is up at Cleveland Review of Books! clereviewofbooks.com/writing/from-c…

This was a fascinating conversation. If you've not listened to it yet you're missing out!

Episode 13 of A Plunge Into Calvino podcast is now online! An interview with writer, communication coach and co-founder of Living Proof Advocacy, John Capecci, whose stage adaptation of If On A Winter's Night A Traveller opens in Arizona on 1st November. open.spotify.com/show/41IrJekTj…

You can see John giving a talk about Calvino, If On A Winter's Night... and meta-fiction (and the actors performing a snippet of the play) here; youtu.be/l91UJ2-uXVU?si… Full disclosure - John is kind enough to quote me in his talk but he pulls from much weightier sources too!

Cybernetics, or Ghosts? Meet the writers:

"A machine, he reasonably speculates, would lean towards ordered forms of language and communication: long-established tropes, systems and narrative formulas. In the face of his prediction becoming a norm, what of today’s human author?" clereviewofbooks.com/writing/from-c…

Took delivery of this today. If you've listened to episode 12 you'll know that this is a short story anthology in which each story is inspired by Calvino's essay 'Cybernetics and Ghosts', edited by that episode's guest MichaelSalu. Available through Bandcamp.

Experience the imaginary worlds of Italo Calvino, one of Italy's most beloved authors, through a range of writings from The Baron in the Trees to If on a winter's night a traveler with renowned Italian Studies scholar Joseph Luzzi. Register: hubs.la/Q02WKlZz0

'Nowadays when young people see Mussolini in old films they find him ridiculous and cannot understand how there were enormous crowds who praised him to the skies.' - Italo Calvino, 'The Duce's Portraits' (1983, trans Martin McLaughlin).

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