Twenty years ago, Frank Bures chatted with a young Alex Garland about his travel novel, The Beach. Bures recently unearthed the interview—a time capsule from the dawn of global backpacking.
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Writer Spotlight: Pico Iyer
- Why We Travel
Travel Stories: In a classic essay, Pico Iyer explores the reasons we leave our beliefs and certainties at home to see the world with open eyes
- The Photographer and the Philosopher
Travel Books: Pico Iyer on Jan Morris and V.S. Naipaul, two “master portraitists” of place
- Lover’s Moon
Travel Stories: Pico Iyer on the power of travel to make a forgettable Glenn Frey song last forever
- The Perfect Traveler
Travel Books: Pico Iyer on the author who steals into so much of the travel writing we enjoy
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