![]() I was introduced to him by guidebook author Rick Steves. He’s also chatted with Oprah Winfrey on Supersoul Sunday. To date, Pico has written 12 books on subjects such as Cuba, Graham Greene and the Dalai Lama, as well as countless pieces in The New York Times, Condé Nast Traveler and The New York Review Of Books. ![]() Now, he divides his time between Santa Barbara and Nara, Japan. ![]() Pico’s Twitter profile offers a bite-sized bio: “Born in Oxford, England, in 1957, resident since 1992 in suburban Japan and a Benedictine hermitage in Big Sur, California.” Hometown: “The World.” For context, I’ll add that when Pico wasn’t earning degrees at Oxford, Eton and Harvard, he was either in Santa Barbara, California, where his Indian parents moved in the 1960s, or in New York, where he worked for Time magazine. I am here to attend Writing Through The Dark: A Workshop On Words And Silences, led by writer Pico Iyer, who will tell me on Saturday, over lunch, that not only is this his first time visiting Tassajara, but also his first attempt at teaching a workshop. To get there, you need a 4X4 to navigate the rocky track that bumps up and down through Los Padres National Forest before retreating into the Ventana wilderness. The Tassajara Zen Mountain Center is located 150 miles south of San Francisco, inland from Big Sur. 20 February 2017 The British-born novelist on the life of a writer, a childhood spent on the move, and the fear of losing his reckless streak. ![]()
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