Pico Iyer

with Pico Iyer
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on Wednesday, February 8, 2012 * * * * *

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Author Pico Iyer on his book about Graham Greene called "The Man Within My Head"

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    1. aldanu  03/25/2012 10:32 PM Report

      A beautiful interview about a very compelling writer whom I've enjoyed listening to for years. I was also very very moved by Charlie's own comments on his parents and his rememberances of them. It truly moved me especially now that my parents are in their eighties.

      Thank you Charlie, as always. You have a unique gift of making us think, examine and contemplate every aspect of our lives and the life of those around us; near and far.

    2. YNHow  02/10/2012 08:04 AM Report

      This was really something... I agree, it was moving.

      So nice. Thank you.

    3. largo_kapasi  02/10/2012 01:32 AM Report

      Mr. Rose, this was a wonderful interview, and I agree very much with ShalomFreedman -- it was moving to hear you describe your parents. Perhaps you can tell us more about them in a book of your own? In any event, thank you for your work and this site.

    4. ShalomFreedman  02/09/2012 12:44 PM Report

      I greatly appreciated hearing Charlie Rose's feelings about his not having interviewed his own parents.

    5. REMant  02/09/2012 12:01 PM Report

      It is refreshing to read Greene's thrillers, like Gardner, Simenon, Ambler, LeCarre (in the beginning) with their simple direct expressiveness, unlike the turgid P D James, for example, though I think don't think they can be classed as great writers. Novels, in the past half century, seem to have gotten, like higher education, piled higher and deeper. Tho I think it impossible to be both a novelist and a really good writer. Greene's fall into what one might term the boarding school genre, concerned with identity and morality, particularly Catholic, sometimes sexual, and given to cynicism, eventually of the Church itself. I too think he's probably at his best in critiquing the opposite point of view, as in The Quiet American, which earned him the everlasting emnity of US spy agencies. He is sort of "the anti-missionary." But like many such intellectuals he worked for British intelligence himself during the war. I think most Americans have no idea who he was, but film buffs may recognize some of the titles: The Power and the Glory; The Third Man; The Ministry of Fear; This Gun for Hire; Our Man in Havana; The Comedians; The Tenth Man; Travels with My Aunt; The End of the Affair; St Joan; The Heart of the Matter; Loser Takes All; The Comedians; Beyond the Limit aka The Honorary Consul; and very recently a remake of Brighton Rock.