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Pico Iyer talked about his book, The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere, about his unique quest to “do nothing.” Having traveled the globe from Cuba to Kathmandu and Easter Island…

From the 31st annual Key West Literary Seminar in Key West, Florida, panelists talked about the use and effect of facts when writing fiction. Panelists included authors Pico Iyer, Colm Toibi…

Pico Iyer talked about his book The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama (Vintage; reprint edition March 10, 2009). Mr. Iyer, a travel writer, talked about his own work…

Authors discussed themes of travel writing such as exploration, self-reflection, multiculturalism, global life, and the sense of home that comes from traveling. They also read passages from …

The panelists considered how the spread of American popular culture throughout the world is viewed by those in other countries.