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Matthew Fresta

Matthew Fresta

Co-host of The Getting Lit Podcast, a literary podcast about books and media, alongside Matthew Sini (New Mythologies).

Sep 3, 2026

10:56
What about you, Fresta? Where, where are you at with Calvino? Is this the first? Mine's a bit
11:00
shorter.
11:01
Uh, this is the second, but, um, it's because when you originally emailed, you're like, we could do either Invisible Cities or If One Winter's Not.
11:09
And while I have copies of both, those are the only two I have.
11:12
I just picked them up at thrift stores.
11:14
And so a couple of months ago, I was just like, well, the visible cities looks pretty short yeah so i'll just read that so i can like have just a bit more you know knowledge about him um and it was good i liked it i like uh if on a winter's night more because this is a bit um less of a narrative really like it's kind of like marco polo's having like these sit-downs with um kublai khan and then he's describing all of these cities and they're all like fantastical cities that don't exist and they'll be like you know, a city that's like made of ropes suspended above a gourd gorge and, or like a city where it's like above it, the living live and beneath it is the dead.
11:55
And they all each have their own city.

19 MINS LATER

31:01
I did kind of want to ask you, like, in terms of the the books within the book the sections of the books within the books do you guys have any favorites that you recall um

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