- Italo Calvino for beginners by Jonathan Letham
- A 12-minute interview with Gore Vidal about Italo Calvino. Worth it for the Hemmingway quote alone: “Hemmingway was a hopeless writer but who would care because you had to know about writing before you could judge him. That’s the problem.”
- Gore Vidal essay
- The Paris Review
Writing the Long Way Around 
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