ERIC WEINER
Friday, January 18 at 7:30 p.m.

NPR correspondent Eric Weiner spent a decade based variously in New Delhi, Tokyo, and Jerusalem, reporting from those places and thirty more countries. Now based more domestically, in Washington, D.C., he is traveling all over the U.S. to read from and talk about his splendid new book, The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World (12). "With one single book, Eric Weiner has flushed Bill Bryson down a proverbial toilet, and I say that lovingly. By turns hilarious and profound, this is the kind of book that could change your life. The relationship between place and contentment is an ineffable one, and Weiner cuts through the fog with a big, powerful light." - Henry Alford. "Part travelogue, part personal-discovery memoir and all sustained delight, this wise, witty ramble reads like Paul Theroux channeling David Sedaris on a particularly good day ... Fresh and beguiling." - Kirkus Reviews.

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