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Oh, Italo Calvino! I’m Awake! I’m Awake!

March 21, 2013 by Paula Panich

Talk about waking up to language! This is from Italo Calvino: Letters 1941-1985, translated by Martin McLaughlin, and to be published in May by Princeton University Press. (I will buy it IMMEDIATELY!) This letter (a fragment of which is below) is believed to have been written in 1969. Dear Mr. Ricci, […]

Categories: Literary Essays/Book Reviews • Tags: Books, Italo Calvino. Writing, Letters of Great Writers, Writing Inspiration

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ABOUT PAULA PANICH

Paula Panich is a Los Angeles-based food, garden, and landscape writer and teacher who has contributed to the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Gastronomica and other publications. She is author of Cultivating Words: The Guide to Writing about the Plants and Gardens You Love, and other books. Her latest, The Cook, the Landlord, the Countess and Her Lover, is a collection of memoir-ish culinary essays. Her literary work, including fiction, has been published in the Harvard Review, the North American Review, and on writing disorder, an online literary journal. She has taught writing workshops from the New York Botanical Garden to the Getty Center, and at Boston University and the UCLA Ext. Landscape Architecture Program.

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