📚️ Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino helped me clarify why I liked some authors and not others. ⊕ ... 0 ▲ Infinite Regress 48 days ago · Writing · hide · Fediverse post 📚️ Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino helped me clarify why I liked some authors and not others. ⊕ [Note: Incidentally, M. John Harrison’s latest book is on the short list for the Booker prize this year. I eagerly await October 13 and its US debut. ] There are in fact five memos, named in order Lightness, Quickness, Exactitude, Visibility and Multiplicity. The final one, Consistency, was not to be: Calvino died, aged 61, before finishing. Commenting on Bubbles has been removed. Why? If you want to talk about this post, write to the author, use the comments on their blog if it has them, or reply with a "RE:" post on your own blog. Suggestions? feedback@bubbles.town
