Category: excerpts
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Italo Calvino on what makes great writing great
From Six Memos for the New Millennium:
…From its beginnings, my work as a writer has aimed to follow the lightning-fast course of mental circuits that capture and link points that are far apart in space and time. In
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Don DeLillo on the overview effect
In “Human Moments in World War III” from The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories, an astronaut gazes down at Earth from orbit:
…The view is endlessly fulfilling. It is like the answer to a lifetime of questions and vague cravings.