Ricardo Casanova
Fiction, ideas, communication, and emerging technology. Published work and books in progress.
Published · Executive communication
A 15-pillar field guide to high-status communication. It treats eloquence as a learnable system spanning diction, articulation, vocal control, body language, pauses, reading the room, charisma, rapport, conflict, boundaries, storytelling, speech structure, stronger language, persuasion, and speaking without fear. Each section moves from principle to drills, checklists, and practical protocols.
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Published · Illustrated allegory
An illustrated allegory about censorship and the freedom to read. Pip the Penguin discovers a great story-tree whose birds embody challenged and banned books, including references to I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Gender Queer, Fun Home, The Handmaid's Tale, Brave New World, The Great Gatsby, and The Color Purple. When the crow-like SNIP Squad cuts away the tree's story-leaves, the birds fade and the tree withers. Pip answers with a communal read-in, restoring the voices, the tree, and eventually even inviting the crows to listen.
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Forthcoming · Creative work
A deeply personal collection of poetry and prose about the inheritance of a famous surname and the life lived beneath it. Beginning with the historical Casanova myth, the book turns inward through identity, desire, love, illusion, anxiety, grief, addiction, regret, survival, and reinvention. It is less a celebration of conquest than an examination of appetite, consequence, memory, and the difficult work of becoming someone on your own terms.
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A story and activity book about artificial intelligence for young readers. Coming soon.
Inside Stories with Wings
Stories with Wings uses a world of birds to make challenged books visible without simply reproducing them. A caged songbird evokes I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. A flamingo and peacock stand for pride, difference, and self-expression. A bird of paradise wears the crimson bonnet of The Handmaid's Tale. A metallic starling represents the engineered conformity of Brave New World. Other birds carry echoes of The Great Gatsby and The Color Purple.
The threat comes from the SNIP Squad, crows with garden shears who cut away story-leaves marked by ideas such as fear, difference, and questions. With every cut, a voice disappears and the story-tree weakens. Pip's answer is not violence. It is reading together. The shared act of remembering and retelling restores the tree, brings the lost birds back, and even leaves room for the crows to become listeners. The book's argument is simple: stories give people wings, and a culture with fewer stories becomes smaller, dimmer, and easier to control.
