Italo Calvino’s 14 definitions of what makes a classic.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/may/22/fiction.italocalvino
Novelist David Mitchell reflects on what If on a winter's night a traveler has meant to him over the years.
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/21/books/a-romance-of-the-reader.html
New York Times book review: "A Romance of the Reader."
https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2027/italo-calvino-the-art-of-fiction-no-130-italo-calvino
The Paris Review interview with Italo Calvino.
