Pico Iyer on “The Best American Travel Writing” Anthology

Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 10.22.04 | 6:38 PM ET

Pico Iyer discussed the new edition of Houghton Mifflin’s “Best American Travel Writing” at length on Wisconsin Public Radio earlier this week. He was as eloquent as ever, and the entire interview, which covered a range of topics, can be heard here, under the show dated 10/19. Among the highlights (for us, at least), the show’s host read a portion of Heather Eliot’s Sandbags in the Archipelago, which first appeared on World Hum and was selected by Iyer for the anthology. “You brilliantly singled out my favorite piece in the book,” Iyer responded.