Darran Anderson on Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities

Darran Anderson is our first guest on the show and he joins Windham-Campbell Prizes Director Michael Kelleher to talk about the ever-shifting magic of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities.

READING LIST:

• Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
• Derry Girls (2018-2022)
• The Cloven Viscount by Italo Calvino
• The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
• An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris by Georges Perec
• Frank Lloyd Wright's Plan for Greater Baghdad
• Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman

For a full episode transcript, click here.

Darran Anderson is an Irish essayist, journalist, and memoirist. Over the past decade, he has written on the intersections of culture, politics, urbanism, and technology for a wide variety of publications, including The Atlantic, frieze magazine, TheGuardian, and the Times Literary Supplement. His first book was Imaginary Cities: A Tour of Dream Cities, Nightmare Cities, and Everywhere in Between (2015) and his second, Inventory (2020), was a finalist for the PEN Ackerley Award. Born in Derry, he now lives in London.

The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast is a program of The Windham-Campbell Prizes, which are administered by Yale University Library's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

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