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"Traveller's Tales" Pico Iyer in Conversation with Amy Wilentz

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TRAVELERS' TALES:

PICO IYER in conversation with AMY WILENTZ

THURSDAY, APRIL 11
3:30 PM
HUMANITIES GATEWAY 1030

Join the Literary Journalism Program and the Department of History for a
conversation between writers Pico Iyer and Amy Wilentz. Light refreshments;
book sale and signing to follow. Free and open to the public. For more
information, contact Patricia Pierson at piersonp@uci.edu.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, the
Center for Asian Studies, the Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies,
the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, the Humanities
Collective, the International Studies Program, and the World History MRU,
with support from the Office of the Chancellor.

About Pico Iyer:

An essayist, columnist, and novelist, Pico Iyer was born in Oxford, England
in 1957, to parents from India, and educated at Eton, Oxford, and Harvard.
Since 1986 he has been writing books and since 1992 he has been based in
rural Japan, while spending part of each year in a Benedictine hermitage in
California. www.picoiyerjourneys.com

About Amy Wilentz:

Amy Wilentz (UC Irvine English and Literary Journalism) is the author of The
Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier (1989), Martyrs' Crossing (2000), and I
Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen: Coming to California in the
Age of Schwarzenegger (2006). She edited and translated The Parish of the
Poor (Orbis Books 1990), a collection of the writings of Haitian President
and political leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide. She contributed the leading
essay to the book Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary (Harper, 2008). Wilentz
is the winner of the Whiting Writers Award, the PEN Martha Albrand
Non-Fiction Award, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal
Award, and also a 1990 nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
She has written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles, Time magazine, The
New Republic, Mother Jones, Harper¹s, Vogue, Condé Nast Traveler,
Reconstruction, Travel & Leisure, The San Francisco Chronicle, More, The
Village Voice, The London Review of Books and many other publications. She
is the former Jerusalem correspondent of The New Yorker and a long-time
contributing editor at The Nation.