Shelving insecurities

By Jane Sullivan
December 29 2012 - 3:00am
Illustration: Jane Mount.
Illustration: Jane Mount.

PICO Iyer calls The Quiet American by Graham Greene ''my uncertain Bible''. He first read it 30 years ago and he returns to it every few months. It sits on his ideal bookshelf, jostling spines with Moby-Dick, Thoreau's On Walden Pond, Shakespeare, the letters of John Keats, Derek Walcott's poems, Emerson's essays, Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon, Jan Morris' Among the Cities, and a book about Zen.

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