{"id":805,"date":"2014-10-06T23:34:56","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T06:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.InvisibleAdventure.com\/?p=805"},"modified":"2014-10-06T23:34:56","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T06:34:56","slug":"under-the-influence-italo-calvino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog2.invisibleadventure.com\/?p=805","title":{"rendered":"Under the Influence: Italo Calvino"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who could not love the premise of Evan Karp<\/a>‘s reading series, Under the Influence<\/a>? Each writer chooses an author that (s)he loves, introduces the audience to that author, then reads a short piece inspired by the work of that writer. I stumbled upon Italo Calvino’s novel, If On A Winter’s Night, A Traveller<\/em>, when I was working at my first bookstore job in San Francisco. I fell into it completely, with its 2nd person narration and its unconventional, twisty storytelling. I went on to read Invisible Cities<\/em>, Cosmicomics<\/em>, Under the Jaguar Sun<\/em>, Marcovaldo<\/em>, Mr. Palomar<\/em>, and many other Calvino titles. He had a prolific imagination that made the world seem possible<\/em>.
\nMy story, “Invisible City,” was inspired by Calvino’s stories told by Marco Polo to Kublai Khan. To me that book is several books rolled into one: fairytales, travelogue, architectural guidebook, and bromance. Still one of my favorite books to read on an airplane.
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