Wyoming Arts Council

"Trials of the Travel Writer" at UW

Uncategorized | March 26, 2007

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Pico Iyer, an internationally known travel writer and novelist, will give two presentations at UW on Tuesday, April 17. Iyer will join with Mark Jenkins, a Laramie adventure author and global correspondent for Rodale Press, in a symposium entitled “The Trials of the Travel Writer,” from noon-1 p.m. in the Family Room of the UW Student Union in Laramie. Vickie Lindner, of the UW English Department, will moderate. At 7 p.m. that same evening, Iyer will also read and talk about his work in the Business College Auditorium. A reception will follow the reading highlighting specially priced books by the author from the UW bookstore.

Titles of Iyer’s well-known works include, Video Night in Kathmandu: And Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East; The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto; Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places in the World; Sun after Dark: Flights into the Foreign; Cuba and the Night; and Abandon: A Romance. Iyer is currently working on a book about his long relationship with the Dali Lama.

For more information please call (307) 766-2867 or visit the website at www.uwyo.edu/creativewriting

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