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Performing Arts: Discussion
PICO IYER on GRAHAM GREENE in conversation with Paul Holdengräber
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Photo Credit: Derek Shapton
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Tuesday Feb 7 (7–9pm)
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$25 / $15 Students, Seniors, Staff, and FRIENDS
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"Who are these figures who take residence inside our heads, to the point where we can hear their voices even when we're trying to make contact with our own?"--Pico Iyer We all carry people, met or unmet, inside our heads, who sometimes seem closer to us than people we know. For Pico Iyer, the author of The Global Soul, that person is Graham Greene. Pico Iyer will unravel the mysterious communion he has always had with Greene, which Iyer illuminates in The Man Within My Head. Iyer, at home nowhere, examines the points of contact between himself and Greene -- their public school education, their lifelong restlessness, their refusal to make a home anywhere -- and comes to a larger understanding about his own family. PICO IYER has written nonfiction books on globalism, Japan, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, and forgotten places, and novels on Revolutionary Cuba and Islamic mysticism. He regularly writes on literature for The New York Review of Books, on travel for the Financial Times,and on global culture and the news for Time, The New York Times, and magazines around the world.
