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Salman Rushdie Reads Italo Calvino

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Why Calvino and Barthelme Resonated

Salman Rushdie explains his attraction to Calvino and Barthelme for their strange, cryptic voices and early encounters with Calvino's work.

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