Pico Iyer has published 15 books, on subjects ranging from the Dalai Lama to globalism, from the Cuban Revolution to Islamic mysticism. They include such long-running sellers as Video Night in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk, The Global Soul, The Open Road and The Art of Stillness. At the same time he has been…
Ari Shaffir and Rolf discuss “The Vagabond’s Way” onstage at KGB Bar in NYC.
Kate Harris on reinventing the notion of exploration
“Lunatic Express” writer Carl Hoffman on the merits of traveling on local buses, ferries, and trains.
Travel-writing icon Tim Cahill on the counterintuitive rules of adventure travel.
Author Stephanie Rosenbloom on going solo, and savoring travel experiences.
“Writing Away” author Lavinia Spalding on why you should journal when you travel
The setting of the Listasavn Føroya, the Faroe Islands’ little national art gallery, can at times feel less like a museum than the parkside home of a person who really enjoys art. Michigander Matthew Landrum, who translates Faroese poetry into English (check out his translation of Katrin Ottarsdottir’s Are There Copper Pipes in Heaven), was…
Paul Theroux on his novel “The Bad Angel Brothers,” and the contradictions of the global economy.
Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill’d with the foolish, Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?) Of eyes that vainly crave the light, of the objects mean, of the struggle ever renew’d, Of the poor results of all, of the plodding and sordid…
Rolf and Ernest White II talk about using what money you have to create the life you want.
