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Longing for Hanoi.
Reading Greene as a means to get over my longing for Vietnam. He wrote The Quiet American in the Metropole in Hanoi. I wonder, did the scenery affect him at all? Pico Iyer, whom I’m still readi… more →
Here/Somewhere/Nowhere/Everywhere/There
Armchair Travel: Iyer's Kyoto
wrote 3 weeks ago: Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marser/6927485038/ I have been recently immersed in Pico Iyer’s … more →
When Worlds Collide #63: Looking for Real Cities in Sri Lanka
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wrote 4 weeks ago: Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today Sunday newspaper on 21 April 2013 … more →
Noted: Pico Iyer on voice
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wrote 4 weeks ago: The paradox of persona—which you is speaking—devils nonfictionists. Especially memoirists and essayi … more →
Unrooted Childhoods: Pico Iyer
wrote 1 month ago: Pico Iyer’s essay “Living in the Transit Lounge” serves as an introduction to the … more →
Why I Travel
wrote 1 month ago: I wholeheartedly believe in this statement when it comes to travel. I used to travel to escape and … more →
Writing with Benefits
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wrote 1 month ago: Can writing, in its many forms, make us happier? Research tells us that it can be a useful coping me … more →
On dreams.
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wrote 1 month ago: The content of my dreams has long ceased to interest me; but their proportions, the way they rearran … more →
My top 10 travel books
wrote 1 month ago: For lack of a blogworthy two-bits, here’s a list of some travel books I’ve really, truly … more →
Review: The Man Within My Head by Pico Iyer
wrote 2 months ago: I have traveled to Greeneland—the land so-called to describe the world Graham Greene wrote of—at lea … more →
Bored:
wrote 2 months ago: Pico Iyer said “ … I’ve stepped out of my daily haze, the somnambulism that is my life!” , in … more →
“When things come at you very fast, naturally you lose touch with yourself.” ~ Marshall McLuhan
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wrote 2 months ago: Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out (Original Movie Soundtrack) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Remember “Tur … more →
What's In Your Backpack?
wrote 2 months ago: On Wednesday, I asked my students to judge one of their classmates. I requested that a volunteer in … more →
Expatriation 2.0: Living Mindfully Abroad
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wrote 2 months ago: In his essay “The Alien Home“, the British writer Pico Iyer describes Japan as “th … more →
enter spring: a lot of time for thinking...
wrote 2 months ago: (Pic from the Gion district of Kyoto) This paraphrase of an old story is shamelessly stolen from Pic … more →
"The Joy of Less": Perspectives From Korea
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wrote 2 months ago: My 10th grade students began studying memoirs today. During the seven week unit, which is bisected … more →
Key West Literary Seminar hosts Contemporary Literature class
wrote 3 months ago: Contemporary Literature students listen to Alexandra Styron discuss her book Reading My Father and c … more →
On India, from Condé Nast Traveler
wrote 3 months ago: India is not only an area of the world that currently has a lot going on, both politically and econo … more →
We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves - Pico Iyer
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wrote 3 months ago: we travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves. we travel to open o … more →
Jaipur Literature Festival
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wrote 3 months ago: The Jaipur Literature Festival takes place every winter. It has grown from its conception in 2006, … more →
