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PICO IYER discusses The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
Harvard Book Store, as part of Harvard Square Business Association's April 12th Bookish Ball festivities, honoring Harvard Square's bookstores, is pleased to present PICO IYER for a discussion of his new, unprecedented profile of the Dalai Lama. "This is a brilliant pairing of writer and subject. Iyer has known the Dalai Lama, spiritual and political leader of Tibet, for more than 30 years, thanks to a long-ago connection between the writer's father, an Oxford don born in India, and a young Dalai Lama. And so the acute global observer Iyer, a travel writer, essayist and novelist, has long followed the fortunes of the astute globalist Tibetan Buddhist, who travels the world but can never go home to his Chinese-occupied country. "This is not a biography but an extended journalistic analysis of someone deep enough for several lifetimes, as Tibetan Buddhists believe. Iyer organizes his observations by smart descriptions of aspects of the Dalai Lama's work and character: icon, monk, philosopher, politician. This allows him to plumb different sides of His Holiness, whom he demythologizes even as he expresses a clear-eyed respect for the leader's achievements." -Publishers Weekly (starred review) Bookish Ball activities are free and open to the public throughout Harvard Square on April 12. Please visit the Harvard Square Business Association website, http://harvardsquare.com, for more details. Also, cartoonist Mike Konopacki Prints on Display
On display in our store for the weekend of April 12-13, thanks to Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, will be six high-quality prints from Howard Zinn's A People's History of American Empire, edited by Paul Buhle and illustrated by cartoonist Mike Konopacki, a graphic adaptation of Zinn's grassroots masterpiece, A People's History of America. Excerpted from a section entitled “Just Following Orders” (pages 129–34), these prints showcase Konopacki’s cartoon rendition of a crucial part of Zinn’s autobiography. The illustrations also incorporate archival photographs and documents.
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Pico Iyer is the author of six works of nonfiction and two novels. He has covered the Tibetan question for Time, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and many other publications for more than twenty years. Iyer is the author of several books about cultures converging, including Video Night in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk, The Global Soul, Abandon, and, most recently, Sun After Dark: Flights Into the Foreign. He lives in suburban Japan. “If Iyer is only a travel writer, then so was Henry James.” –The Los Angeles Times
Photo credit: Derek Shapton.
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