{"id":1843,"date":"2014-09-30T18:12:15","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T18:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/group\/bookclub\/cgi-bin\/wordpress\/?p=1843"},"modified":"2014-09-30T18:12:15","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T18:12:15","slug":"another-look-book-club-goes-out-of-this-world-with-calvinos-cosmicomics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/?p=1843","title":{"rendered":"Another Look book club goes out of this world with Calvino’s Cosmicomics<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>“Climb up on the Moon? Of course we did. All you had to do was row out to it in a boat and, when you were underneath, prop a ladder against her and scramble up.” So begins the improbable tale of a man in love with the moon, and the woman in love with him, at a time when the moon was so close to the earth you could \u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Wait a minute. The moon, at the dawn of time when it was closest to the earth, was still at least 12,000 miles away. Too long for any ladder. Clearly, Italo Calvino (1923-1985,) one of the greatest European writers of the last century, took a mountain of artistic license when he published his science-based fantasies, Cosmicomics,<\/em> in 1965. But for the generations of readers swept away with the wit and magic of these loosely linked stories, that’s part of the fun.<\/p>\n

Cosmicomics<\/em> will be discussed at the popular “Another Look” book club<\/a>, at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 27, at Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center. Acclaimed author Robert Pogue Harrison<\/a>, the Rosina Pierotti Professor of Italian Literature, will moderate the panel, with award-winning novelist Tobias Wolff,<\/a> the Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor, and literary journalist and visiting scholar Cynthia Haven<\/a>, who blogs at The Book Haven<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Harrison hosts the radio talk show “Entitled Opinions” <\/a>and contributes regularly to the New York Review of Books<\/em>. The event launches the third year of “Another Look,” founded by the Creative Writing Program in the Department of English. <\/a>\u00a0The event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

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