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"Travelers' Tales": Pico Iyer, In Conversation with Amy Wilentz

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THE CONVERSATIONS ON WRITING AND PUBLIC LIFE SERIES
PRESENTS

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, Harper’s, 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.