[FKPXLS] The New Frontier of Belonging - by Tina He
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Even as migrants, we can feel local to many homes.
The 36-year-old Calvino fell fervently in love with New York, so much so that he wrote in one of his letters: “Life in New York has started to become ferociously pleasant again. I must be daft, but I am more in love than ever with this horrendous city. New York is the only true love of my life.” The honeymoon phase that never escaped the Italian writer, perhaps only intensified. The four short months spent in a foreign city that never became his residential home left in him an indelible longing. In an interview with literary critic Maria Corti, he crystallized his romantic vision of the…
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