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Salman Rushdie Reads Italo Calvino

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Calvino as Mentor and Cultural Introducer

Rushdie describes his warm but not close friendship with Calvino and Calvino's influential essay that introduced Midnight's Children to Italy.

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