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	Pico Iyer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pico Iyer (born 1957) is a British-born Indian journalist and author.
		Iyer was born in England to Indian parents.
		Iyer lived in California in his childhood but returned to England as a teenager, where he was educated at the Dragon School, Eton College and Magdalen College, Oxford, and went on to pursue a globetrotting career as a reporter, essayist, and novelist.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pico_Iyer (616 words)

	Powells.com Interviews - Pico Iyer
		Iyer: I think I say in the book that a foreigner tends to see paradise where a native sees purgatory, insofar as a foreigner is in a privileged position and has more appreciative eyes, undimmed by familiarity.
		Iyer: Ishiguro says he's so conscious of an international audience that he deliberately fashions his novels in a way that's easy to translate, and without topical references, because he knows his readers are going to meet him as much in Norwegian or Cantonese or Arabic as in English.
		Iyer: It's perhaps a pity that you have to wait until the last chapter to go there, but that chapter is a conscious attempt to make sense of everything that's gone before it, to give a counterpoint and a perspective.
	www.powells.com /authors/iyer.html (3387 words)

	Pico Iyer
		Iyer says the book was handed over to the publishers a short time before September 11 and is not influenced by the cataclysmic event in New York that fateful day.
		Pico Iyer is in fact one of the most perceptive chroniclers of this global multiculturalism having penned such acclaimed books as, Video Nights In Kathmandu, The Global Soul, Tropical Classical and Cuba and the Night.
		Pico Iyer sounds almost autobiographical as he confesses to have submitted his entire being to the muse.
	www.the-south-asian.com /May-June2003/pico_iyer.htm (899 words)

	Salon Travel \| Writers We Love: Pico Iyer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Iyer has written five books -- including "The Lady and the Monk," his crystalline account of a year in Japan; the novel "Cuba and the Night"; and two collections of essays and articles, "Falling Off the Map" and "Tropical Classical." All of them astonish, delight and inform.
		By the time of Iyer's travels, the process of cultural crossbreeding had accelerated, to be sure, but his words bring vividly back to me the Asia I was discovering: a place of prayer flags and dusty squares, monks and mendicants, temples and brothels, epiphanies and perplexities, banana pancake breakfasts and Lonely Planet nights.
		As a child of Indian parents raised in the United States and schooled in England, Iyer is no doubt especially attuned to the way cultures interact.
	www.salon.com /travel/bag/1999/09/15/iyer (693 words)

	Review \| The Global Soul by Pico Iyer
		Iyer loves to find microcosms within the culture, from which he draws conclusions for the entire world in a manner which is both bold and a little foolhardy.
		In some ways Iyer appears to be from another century (the 19th, to be exact), so that he seems an odd choice to peer into the global future.
		Perhaps if Iyer could stop trying so hard to find himself, if he were more at home in his own skin, his potential for real depth of insight would have a chance to blossom.
	www.januarymagazine.com /nonfiction/globalsoul.html (812 words)

	Amazon.com: The Global Soul : Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home (Vintage Departures): Books: Pico Iyer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Iyer was once able to capture the spirit of a foreign place, and his humble, amused, and always acute observations of distant, exotic cultures reflected a keen intellect as well as a keen eye.
		Iyer, who once seemed happy to be alive and experiencing the privilege of globe-trotting and soaking up different cultures, then writing about them for a living, now seems to trudge through most of what he sees, and the sense of the world's splendor in his eyes is now gone.
		Iyer felt that his painstaking attention to specific minutiae and proper nouns were a testament to the breadth of his ability to remember and assimilate details of current world pop-culture, yet still quote from english classics.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679776117?v=glance (2819 words)

	Alibris: Pico Iyer
		When TIME magazine writer Pico Iyer set out to explore the East, what he found was: Mohawk haircuts in Bali; yuppies in Hong Kong, a local movie industry that produces not one, but five Rambo ripoffs in Bombay; and young Filipinos rendering a perfect imitation of the latest Madonna song.
		Iyer's essays, one collection among many travelogues from this American-Indian-British writer, is a meditation on house and home from the plastic couches of airports around the world.
		Iyer is a sophisticate of the global community himself, and uses his encounters to outline the displacement that occurs in the transition to a global community.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Iyer,Pico (1121 words)

	Vintage
		Pico Iyer is the author of several books about cultures converging, including Video Night in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk, The Global Soul, and, most recently, Abandon.
		Pico Iyer’s intoxicating new novel is at once a stylish intellectual mystery and a pulse-quickening love story—the love in question being at once sacred and profane.
		When Pico Iyer decided to go to Kyoto and live in a monastery, he did so to learn about Zen Buddhism from the inside, to get to know Kyoto, one of the loveliest old cities in the world, and to find out something about Japanese culture today -- not the world...
	randomhouse.com /vintage/catalog/results_author.pperl?authorid=14177 (427 words)

	Talk of the Town: Pico Iyer, Novelist, Essayist and Journalist - UBC.ca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Pico Iyer was born in England to Indian parents, grew up in California, attended Eton and Oxford and now lives in suburban Japan.
		"Pico Iyer is the poet laureate of wanderlust.
		Iyer has written about the growing importance of Canadian literature in the world of international letters, the subject of this article from the Halifax Herald in October 2002.
	www.ubc.ca /talkofthetown/2003/spring/iyer.html (443 words)

	The Seattle Times: Travel: 'Sun After Dark': Pico Iyer's revelatory journeys of the mind and spirit
		Iyer brings that same startling freshness to his accounts of travel in Bolivia, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Bali, Tibet, Easter Island, Haiti and what he calls "my parents' India" (Iyer's parents emigrated to Oxford, England, where Iyer was born).
		Bolivia was where Iyer went after Sept. 11, 2001, "to get away from a world that was preoccupied with the war between the future and the past." The country's capital, La Paz, he writes, "seemed to sit outside all such ideas...
		Minor quibbles: Iyer is surely toying with the reader when he says that university town Oxford "is often known as the center of England's largest motor works — Great Britain's Detroit, if you like." And he's just plain wrong when saying you fly west from California to get to Easter Island.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/travel/2001909156_iyer25.html (923 words)

	Pico Iyer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Born in England of Indian parents, Iyer immigrated to California at age seven.
		However, Iyer returned back to England to attend Eton and and then Oxford, where he received a masters degree in English.
		Iyer joined TIME in 1982 as a staff writer.
	www.time.com /time/bios/picoiyer.html (107 words)

	Pico Iyer's Japan
		Pico points out the church in the apartment building across the way from which English language hymns float by on Sundays and a vending machine across the street where he can get virtually anything he wants at any time: coffee, tea, beer and pornography.
		Pico: "As we look up, all we see are basically a ring of candles on a wooden terrace on a grand, flying-roofed temple in the hills.
		Pico writes about these issues all the time, as someone of Indian heritage who was educated in England and lived in California.
	savvytraveler.publicradio.org /show/features/2000/20000929/japan.shtml (2711 words)

	Eye - The consolations of provincialism - 06.28.01
		Iyer's book is a meditation on the new, stateless, transnational world he inhabits and that he feels we all, to some extent, live in now, as technology, economics and unstoppable political tides create a world of mongrel identities and miscegenated mindsets.
		In person, Iyer is a charming, slight, rumpled man whose recognizably English accent has been mulled by more than just a few million air miles.
		Ambrozic is, alas, Toronto's Catholic archbishop, and this mistake highlights the proper, British frame of reference that Iyer, perhaps understandably, brings to his survey of the global landscape.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_06.28.01/arts/books.html (693 words)

	Pico Iyer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		TAKE ME IYER: the author of The Global Soul, who grew up in England and America but now lives mostly in Japan, is worried less about what globalism is doing to cultures than about what it's doing to us as individuals.
		As Iyer sees it, our shrinking planet -- with its drop-of-a-hat intercontinental travel -- has led to a new breed: the Global Soul, a "full-time citizen of nowhere" who dashes around the planet in a sort of cultural limbo.
		Though Iyer is happy to acknowledge the benefits that globalism may yet bring, he's concerned about the effect this furious movement is having on the human psyche.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/books/00/05/25/PICO_IYER.html (1865 words)

	interview \| pico iyer
		Iyer counts writers like Michael Ondaatje, Rohinton Mistry, Nino Ricci, Shyam Selvadurai and Kerri Sakamoto as among Toronto’s great assets; residents of the city who may or may not set their novels here, but who nevertheless enhance its collective literary memory.
		Iyer might, in fact, be unconsciously guilty of residual colonial attitudes that might not seem in line with the brave new world he portrays, but it probably does Clark no great service to treat a visiting writer with the same pique he might evince in the face of a rejected grant application.
		If Pico Iyer is to be believed, we have a greater opportunity than the maintenance of our cliques and the defense of a spurious elite.
	www.rickmcginnis.com /books/iyer.htm (966 words)

	BootBlog: Pico Iyer @ Powells (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Pico Iyer travels to continually remodel and update his perspectives.
		The last time he was in Cuba, several years ago, a man asked him to mail a letter to his brother living in CA who is wealthy and maybe able to help him if he knew his situation.
		(Pico Iyer is often asked to post letters to family and friends when in the U.S..
	www.bootblog.org /archives2/000750.shtml (631 words)

	Amazon.com: Sun After Dark : Flights into the Foreign: Books: Pico Iyer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Iyer is an inveterate traveler who seems to have been everywhere, seen everything and talked to everyone.
		Iyer possesses some of Morris's gift for conveying a sense of place, and what it is like to be a stranger in a strange land, but only on occasion does Iyer choose to exercise it.
		Pico Iyer's work generally alternates between fiction and collections of essays, and my personal preference is for the latter.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375415068?v=glance (2302 words)

	Pico Iyer: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Pico Iyer: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic
		Pico Iyer is a British[For more facts and a topic of this subject, click this link]-born journalist and noted author of numerous books.
		Pico Iyer has long worked as a freelance journalist, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pi/pico_iyer.htm (1138 words)

	Meandering Margaux: The True Itinerant: Pico Iyer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Arriving only five minutes early to the Pico Iyer and Jeanette Winterson reading at the 92nd Street Y's Unterberg Poetry Center, we were condemned to the last row of seating in the Buttenweiser Hall.
		"Pico Iyer, based in California,will be awarded the [Guggenheim] fellowship in the general nonfiction category for his work Reflections on the 14th Dalai Lama." [George Joseph, Rediff.com, April 13, 2005]
		For the next three quarters of an hour (having lost all track of time the moment he opened his mouth, I estimate...) Pico Iyer wrapped us in his world.
	www.e-marginalia.com /blog/2005/04/true-itinerant-pico-iyer.html (447 words)

	Pico Iyer - Interview - Arts & Opinion
		Pico Iyer describes himself as: "I am simply a fairly typical product of a moveable sensibility, living and working in a world that
		Pico Iyer is the author of several books (Cuba and the Night, Falling Off the Map: Some of the Loneliest Places on the Earth) and has published essays in Harper's, Time and The New Yorker
		Hear Pico Iyer talk about his travels and life.
	www.artsandopinion.com /2002_v1_n1/iyer.htm (129 words)

	Pico Iyer on Tour for Sun After Dark - Events - written road blog
		Pico Iyer's new book, Sun After Dark: Flights into the Foreign (Knopf) comes out this week.
		He goes to Cambodia, where the main tourist attraction is a collection of skulls from the Khmer Rouge killing fields, and travels through southern Arabia in the weeks before September 11, 2001.
		Intensely affecting, Iyer’s explorations are a road map of thinking in new ways about our changing world.
	www.writtenroad.com /archives/001230.shtml (586 words)

	Lonely Planet \| Traveler at Large
		This week Don George talks travel and travel writing with Pico Iyer, author of the travel lit classics Video Night in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk and The Global Soul.
		Pico Iyer is the author of a number of popular travel narratives: Video Night in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk, Falling off the Map, Tropical Classical and The Global Soul.
		Pico has been an eloquent essayist for Time magazine for many years, and he also writes for Harper's, Condé Nast Traveler, the New York Review of Books and many other publications.
	www.lonelyplanet.com /columns/traveller_archive/2003may21 (286 words)

	Travel Writers: Pico Iyer
		Pico Iyer is one of the most revered and respected travel writers alive today.
		He was born in England, raised in California, and educated at Eton, Oxford, and Harvard.
		Most of the people one meets while traveling deal with more traumas every day than the privileged among us meet in a lifetime.
	www.rolfpotts.com /writers/iyer.html (1938 words)

	Pico Iyer(Features) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Pico Iyer has elevated travel reportage to new heights.
		In a post-modern world of fragments he celebrates the strange and beautiful ways the pieces can come together.
		An essayist and author of Video Night in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk, and Falling Off the Map, his first novel, Cuba and the Night, will be out in Spring 1995.
	www.utne.com /pub/1999_67/features/509-1.html (59 words)

	Blogcritics.org: Book Review: Sun After Dark by Pico Iyer
		Iyer takes you to deserted Yemen, magic (in both ways) Bali, and Cambodia's ancient capital of Angkor.
		In one remarkable chapter, Iyer also discusses the country that never existed until half a century ago - the land of jetlag.
		Iyer's writing is delightfully imperfect - he tends to use long ellipses in the middle of short sentences - and conversational.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2005/09/05/002737.php (724 words)

	Studio 360 This Week - LAX, Pico Iyer, Sontag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This week in Studio 360, Kurt Andersen and the writer Pico Iyer check in at the curb and explore the allure of airports, from mariachi bands in Baltimore to motel views in LA.
		Photographer Zoe Crosher grew up around planes and airports -- her mother was a flight attendant, and her father was a diplomat.
		Pico Iyer is one of the most compelling authors on travel and global cultures.
	www.studio360.org /show010105.html (484 words)

	Pico Iyer - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		All love affairs are likejourneys, deep into a foreign country, where you can't read the signs.
		Pico Iyer returns to the Big Apple for five days -- and finds that attitude has its charms.
		Copyright © 2006 Salon Media Group, Inc. Reproduction of material from any Salon pages without written permission is strictly prohibited.
	dir.salon.com /topics/pico_iyer (261 words)

	Atlas 6 \| Catherine Karnow \| Bombay Bazaar 23 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On the film set of "Lahoo Ke Do Rang," or "Two Bloods Clash," extras wait for instructions during the filming of the movie's bloody climax, while a pair of dueling sword fighters practice their fight scene (next page).
		"The beauty of India's mainstream movies," observes Pico Iyer, "is that...
		Every film is a giddy three-hour mixture of slapstick comedy, social tragedy, fantasy, and farce -- all set to East- West music played at a manic pace.
	www.atlasmagazine.com /photo/karnow6/p23.html (112 words)

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