Paolo Albani is the author of collections of short stories and curious encyclopedic repertoires on imaginary languages, anomalous sciences, unobtainable books, anomalous institutes, crackpots and involuntary comedians. He is a member of OPLEPO (the Italian homologous to the French OULIPO) and Magnificent Consul of Pataphysics, and is the editor of Nuova Tèchne, a magazine of literary and non-literary oddities. He collaborates with the Italian nation-wide magazine Domenica de il Sole 24 ore.