Just discovered the channel hours ago. Was doing a marathon of all the shelf tours. I thought I was at the end. This pops up five minutes after I was done with the last. What luck. I am pleased.
@@NZAnimeManga thank you DEARLY for the suggestion. Of course this series is very limited in scope and I much appreciate ideas for what to focus on next
@@leafyconcern I’m a massive sucker for anything LOA, so if you have any others (remember a Nabokov one too) those would also make for great videos (there’s also a massive void on RUclips when it comes to people showcasing books from LOA, which is a shame)
I loved the idea of poetry as "Showing your work" when you go to a place. You asked for recommendations from the authors in your copy of "Perspectives 1950: Italian Issue," and there's a bunch in there I am not familiar with, but Natalia Ginzberg is a very good novelist; also I have one book by Eugenio Montale from New Directions simply titled "New Poems," and it is a paperbook from 1976 and it includes an essay from the the legendary F.R. Leavis. As for Calvino: I personally started with "Castle of Crossed Destinies".
Can't believe it's taken me this long to respond to this comment. "C of C D" is amazing. You look around the world at any D&D-style set of numbers and think of what kind of story they might possibly delineate. It's a powerful concept. Oulipan engineering. Practical Oulipo. I also like Montale! Have two books of his. For me this past year or so, he's been a go-to non-pretentious poet. Looking forward to reading some Ginzburg. I think she's actually related to Carlo, who wrote Cheese and the Worms, the book I just did a video on. (Is that actually true?) Her books are also published in nice NYRB editions which are a special favorite of mine. Looking forward to checking out some of those editions (or maybe buying some). Thanks again for watching the vid!
@@leafyconcern The titles that NYRB puts out are always top-notch band deserving of being put back into print. I just read a Swedish novel from the 50's about Vikings with a friend of mine. He's still reading it. The novel is titled "The Longships," and it was fantastic. In addition, I've been meaning to make a video on Geoffrey Wolff's book "Black Sun," which I was only able to read because NYRB republished it. So yes: I, too, am a big fan of their work. I've been meaning to make that video for ages; it was supposed to be a companion to a video I did about Geoffrey Wolff's "Duke of Deception," but that was done ages ago. And I have a book from NYRB right now I am excited to get around to reading, which is the collected Maqrall novellas by Alvaro Mutis. I have an older paperback (Plume maybe? it's boxed up somewhere) of what I thought was all three stories that I read when I was a teenager, and was very excited to discover that there are an additional four! And they are all available together in one NYRB volume. I did not know NYRB had some of Ginzberg's novels in print. That is definitely something I will keep my out our for going forward. I read "The Dry Heart" in a really nice paperback done by a small publisher whose name slips my mind at the moment, and I found an older Penguin orange spine of another novel of hers I have yet to read (the name of which also temporarily escapes me). "The Dry Heart" was a tight, tense, intimate little novel. I'm glad you enjoyed Castle of Crossed Destinies so much! Calvino is one of those writers where, when you're reading them for the first time, as a writer you feel like, "Wait, you're allowed to do that?" It is, as a matter of fact, the exact same feeling I had early in my math studies when I started practicing topology and thinking, "Wait, what? You can do that?"
Just discovered the channel hours ago. Was doing a marathon of all the shelf tours. I thought I was at the end. This pops up five minutes after I was done with the last. What luck. I am pleased.
@@dalaimommadrama8929 thank you for the kind comment! I am glad you’ve been enjoying the shelf tours.
Would definitely be great to see a longer form video focused on those two LOA volumes - another great shelf tour, thanks for sharing!!
@@NZAnimeManga thank you DEARLY for the suggestion. Of course this series is very limited in scope and I much appreciate ideas for what to focus on next
@@leafyconcern I’m a massive sucker for anything LOA, so if you have any others (remember a Nabokov one too) those would also make for great videos (there’s also a massive void on RUclips when it comes to people showcasing books from LOA, which is a shame)
I love that you’ve been uploading so much. Great books, great channel.
@@tosiek444 it means a lot to hear you say that. Your comment gives me the faith to go on and keep expounding freely on whatever book is in my path!
Nice Ashberry collection and yes, please do make s consult the coin oracle series.
@@errata9968 noted! And thank you!
Wait …. an ASHBERY SHELF?????!!!!!!!! I am so happy to find you.
@@theonlyrealproperty2567 yay! And I’m lucky you’re here too! Ya might say “the poem has set me softly down beside you” (paradoxes n oxymorons)
I loved the idea of poetry as "Showing your work" when you go to a place.
You asked for recommendations from the authors in your copy of "Perspectives 1950: Italian Issue," and there's a bunch in there I am not familiar with, but Natalia Ginzberg is a very good novelist; also I have one book by Eugenio Montale from New Directions simply titled "New Poems," and it is a paperbook from 1976 and it includes an essay from the the legendary F.R. Leavis.
As for Calvino: I personally started with "Castle of Crossed Destinies".
Can't believe it's taken me this long to respond to this comment. "C of C D" is amazing. You look around the world at any D&D-style set of numbers and think of what kind of story they might possibly delineate. It's a powerful concept. Oulipan engineering. Practical Oulipo. I also like Montale! Have two books of his. For me this past year or so, he's been a go-to non-pretentious poet. Looking forward to reading some Ginzburg. I think she's actually related to Carlo, who wrote Cheese and the Worms, the book I just did a video on. (Is that actually true?) Her books are also published in nice NYRB editions which are a special favorite of mine. Looking forward to checking out some of those editions (or maybe buying some). Thanks again for watching the vid!
@@leafyconcern The titles that NYRB puts out are always top-notch band deserving of being put back into print. I just read a Swedish novel from the 50's about Vikings with a friend of mine. He's still reading it. The novel is titled "The Longships," and it was fantastic.
In addition, I've been meaning to make a video on Geoffrey Wolff's book "Black Sun," which I was only able to read because NYRB republished it. So yes: I, too, am a big fan of their work. I've been meaning to make that video for ages; it was supposed to be a companion to a video I did about Geoffrey Wolff's "Duke of Deception," but that was done ages ago.
And I have a book from NYRB right now I am excited to get around to reading, which is the collected Maqrall novellas by Alvaro Mutis. I have an older paperback (Plume maybe? it's boxed up somewhere) of what I thought was all three stories that I read when I was a teenager, and was very excited to discover that there are an additional four! And they are all available together in one NYRB volume.
I did not know NYRB had some of Ginzberg's novels in print. That is definitely something I will keep my out our for going forward. I read "The Dry Heart" in a really nice paperback done by a small publisher whose name slips my mind at the moment, and I found an older Penguin orange spine of another novel of hers I have yet to read (the name of which also temporarily escapes me). "The Dry Heart" was a tight, tense, intimate little novel.
I'm glad you enjoyed Castle of Crossed Destinies so much! Calvino is one of those writers where, when you're reading them for the first time, as a writer you feel like, "Wait, you're allowed to do that?" It is, as a matter of fact, the exact same feeling I had early in my math studies when I started practicing topology and thinking, "Wait, what? You can do that?"
Do you speak any languages other than English?
Another good video btw.
@@hjeriz I have limited speaking facility with Spanish and Mandarin Chinese
Thank you for watching this vid!
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