Umberto Eco and Gary Radford in the Manhattan apartment of Erica Jong
October 17, 2002
Photograph by Marie Radford

On October 17, 2002, I received a phone call out of the blue from none other than Dr. Umberto Eco, the world famous semiotician and novelist. Dr. Eco said he had picked up a copy of my book On Eco in the bookstore of Harvard University, and that he would like to meet with me to talk about it further. You can read the story of what happened below.

• When Gary Met Eco, the story of a very special day, New York City, October 17, 2002
  
  
• Phone Message left by Umberto Eco for Gary Radford, Fairleigh Dickinson University, October 17, 2002
  
  LISTEN TO THE UMBERTO ECO PHONE MESSAGE
  
  
• A photograph of Umberto Eco and Gary Radford, taken at the apartment of Erica Jong, New York City, October 17, 2002
  
  
• Title page of On Eco by Gary Radford, signed by Umberto Eco, October 17, 2002
  
  
• A review of On Eco by Allen B. Ruch.
  
  
• Some comments on On Eco by Johan L. Tønnesson, a Norwegian scholar.
  
  
• A review by Ian Marshall, a teacher of English Language and Media Studies from Wixley, North Yorkshire, UK.
  
  
• Purchase a copy of On Eco from Amazon.com
  
  
• Beware of the Fallout: Umberto Eco and the Making of the Model Reader. Selected as the Top Paper by the Theory and Methodology Interest Group of the Eastern Communication Association, and presented at its 93rd Annual Conference, New York City, New York, April 24-28, 2002. Housed on the Porta Ludovica Website (see below).
  
  
• Umberto Eco radio interview, London, England: BBC Radio Four, "Front Row," October 25, 2002
  
  LISTEN TO THE UMBERTO ECO INTERVIEW