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“Troubled places often look to writers in the hope that imagination can see beyond the divisions that ideologies enforce; the writer's job, after all, is to dismantle the very notion of an Other by showing how your hurts belong to me, as my hopes do to you.”

— Pico Iyer, The Half Known Life

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GRANTA: In Conversation
Pico Iyer & Caryl Phillips

‘The immigrant’s dream – that he or she can make a better life for the children – becomes a kind of tragedy when it comes true.’

Pico Iyer and Caryl Phillips discuss migration, V. S. Naipaul and the meaning of home.

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https://granta.com/in-conversation-pico-iyer-caryl-phillips/?fbclid=IwAR3K3EJEoYcQ6BwNGrVgtjjD4Mofs16A4CpAjZiCdP1ZgUr1czIebIT8RWE

Everything Half Known
“In the soul of man,” Herman Melville wrote, in one of his terrifying flights of prophecy in Moby-Dick, “there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.” Cast off from that protected world, he’d gone on, and “thou canst never return!” But the h
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A lovely read on #Kashmir, a paradise glimpsed and lost, from #PicoIyer, excerpted from his new book. The scent of cedars, wild iris and roses, women in bright clothes. https://lithub.com/surrounded-by-wonders-pico-iyer-in-kashmir/

“Anyone reading this book will take in as much information today as Shakespeare took in over a lifetime. Researchers in the new field of interruption science have found that it takes an average of twenty-five minutes to recover from a phone call. Yet such interruptions come every eleven minutes—which means we’re never caught up with our lives.”

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— The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere (TED Books) by Pico Iyer
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My interview with Pico Iyer is now live. Listen to Travel Writing World in your favorite podcast app or here: http://travelwritingworld.com/pico-iyer-the-half-known-life/ #picoiyer #podcast

Recorded a new episode with Pico Iyer about his new book "The Half Known Life," to be published on Travel Writing World next week (ignore the dork with the headphones). #PicoIyer #podcast #amreading

None of the things in life - like love or faith - was arrived at by thinking
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