Conversations with Authors - Eric Weiner (Virtual Event)

Wednesday, October 7th, 2020

Online • Live • 4:00pm PT/7:00pm ET

In conversation with Don George

Conversations with Authors is our free online event series! Join us throughout the week for new chats between different authors.

A note from Eric Weiner:

Dear Book Lovers,

I hope you enjoyed my conversation with Don George as much as I did. There we were—two travel writers unable to travel! Yet, thanks to the technology of our day, we were able to journey vicariously, and in our minds. I was reminded of something Henry Miller once said: “One’s destination is never a place but a new way of looking at things.” With that in mind, I’ve spent the past several long months determined to look at things differently. Books help. A lot. Here are a few of the titles I’ve immersed myself in recently.

Books to Comfort:

• When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron
• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
• My Bright Abyss by Christian Wiman

Books to Make You Think:

• Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
• Civilized to Death by Christopher Ryan

Books to Scratch That Travel Itch:

• The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin,
• Sovietistan by Erika Fatland

Books to Read Slowly:

• The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch
• Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami

Be well, fellow travelers and bibliophiles. Keep reading. Keep thinking. Keep dreaming.
—Eric

Eric Weiner’s Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons From Dead Philosophers combines his twin passions for philosophy and global travel in a pilgrimage that uncovers surprising life lessons from philosophers around the world, from Marcus Aurelius to Arthur Schopenhauer, Confucius to Montaigne.

Eric is an award-winning journalist, bestselling author, and speaker. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Geography of Bliss and The Geography of Genius, as well as the critically acclaimed Man Seeks God. Eric is a former foreign correspondent for NPR and reporter for The New York Times. He is a regular contributor to The Washington Post, BBC Travel, and AFAR, among other publications. He lives in the Washington D.C. area

Don George is an editor-at-large for National Geographic Traveler magazine, as well as host of the National Geographic Live series of conversations with notable authors. In four decades as a travel writer and editor, Don has visited more than 90 countries on five continents. He has traveled throughout—and written extensively about—Europe and Asia. He has also lived in France, Greece, and Japan, working as a translator in Paris, a teacher in Athens, and a television talk show host in Tokyo. Don is the author of The Way of Wanderlust: The Best Travel Writing of Don George, and has received dozens of writing awards, including the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalist of the Year Award.

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