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FEBRUARY 8, 2017 (NEW YORK)

Italo Calvino: Quickness, Enchantment, and the Felicity of Storytelling — at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York, MoMA curator Paola Antonelli and I discuss the beloved writer’s work and legacy, focusing on “The Art of Quickness” — the second of the six Harvard lectures he wrote shortly before his death and never got to deliver. Free event.

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