The Writing Life

Pico Iyer is one writer whom I admire for writing about the places which are not the kind of touristy locations one reads about in newspapers and magazines. And the kind of observations he makes are his trademark. One of his books which I like most is Falling off the Map. I recently read his article in the Washington Post Book World where he talks about him moving to Japan and it influenced his writing. I think it's worth reading by those who aspire to write.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/07/AR2008020702856.html