Pico Iyer: Parasite?
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 01.29.03 | 10:45 AM ET
Apparently so. The travel writer and novelist might be admired in the West, but in Japan, where he lives, Iyer’s neighbors call him “Isoro,” or parasite. Why? Because when the rest of the men get up and go to work in the morning, Iyer stays home to write. That gem is but one revelation in a profile of Iyer in Sunday’s Los Angeles Times.