PositiveWorld Literature Today... an exciting reading experience reminiscent of captivating nonfictional works such as Italo Calvino’s Six Memos for the Next Millennium. It confirms that the Italian writer’s global success stems from her ability to combine craftmanship—perhaps developed in that (often disregarded) hotbed of creative writing talents that is literary translation—and formal knowledge of the classics; independent research of noncanonical stories with the unbridled flow of an inspired writing that tends to spill out of the margins.