Geographic Expeditions presents

In Conversation with Pico Iyer

When
Wed Sep 10, 2008
Where
Davies Symphony Hall
Time
7pm
Tags
Literary Arts, Literary Arts Lectures, Other Literary Arts
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Description

"Having grown up a part of - and apart from - English, American and Indian cultures, he became the first so-called "travel writer" to take the international airport itself as his subject, and then jet lag, displacement and cultural minglings, and he writes often of his delight in living between the cracks and outside fixed categories. Most of his books have been about trying to see some society or way of life - revolutionary Cuba, Sufism, Buddhist Kyoto, even global disorientation - from within, but with the larger perspective an outsider can sometimes bring."

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Location

  1. Davies Symphony Hall
    201 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, CA