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Monday’s Masters Series cover story is written by a man who has both authored critically acclaimed, best-selling books and also written for dozens of international periodicals, from Vanity Fair to National Geographic. Japan-based Pico Iyer has also been an essayist for Time magazine since 1982 and is a former Harvard writing professor. His TED talks have been viewed 4 million times.
He writes exclusively for Travel Weekly about an art installation created by Delta Airlines for a recent TEDGlobal Conference. The article weaves his philosophy about why travel requires its opposite, stillness, with his initial experience of seeing and trying the Delta installation.
The Masters complement the largest, most experienced, award-winning staff in travel business journalism.
With this article, Iyer joins the following writers and photographers in our Masters Series:
* Mark Edward Harris, whose award-winning photography has appeared in Vanity Fair, Life and Conde Nast Traveler, among others, turned his lens on North Korea in a Travel Weekly cover story.
* Patricia Schultz, author of "1,000 Places to See Before You Die" and who, after the recent earthquake in Nepal, wrote movingly in Travel Weekly about her previous experiences there.
* Abe Peck, former dean of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and a former associate editor at Rolling Stone magazine, who has explored topics for Travel Weekly from the problems facing gay travelers to the sometimes dicey political challenges of visiting Tibet.
The Masters -- Harris, Schultz and Peck are also contributing editors -- complement the largest, most experienced, award-winning staff in travel business journalism. The combination of the Masters and the daily publication of staff-written news, trends, research, analysis and opinion provide Travel Weekly readers with a critical business advantage: unrivaled industry insight.
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