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Eric Weiner

Eric Weiner is an American journalist and author who writes about happiness, spirituality, philosophy, and place. A former NPR foreign correspondent, he is best known for The Geography of Bliss, as well as Man Seeks God, The Geography of Genius, and The Socrates Express, blending reportage, travel writing, and philosophy for general readers.

Biografia e Percorso dell'Autore

Eric Weiner is a Baltimore native whose career took shape at the intersection of journalism, travel, and ideas. Educated at the University of Maryland and later a Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford, he began in newspaper reporting before moving to NPR, where he spent years as a foreign correspondent based in New Delhi, Jerusalem, and Tokyo. Reporting from more than thirty countries, he covered war, politics, economics, and everyday life across regions often defined in the news by crisis. That work brought recognition, including an Angel Award for coverage of Islamic affairs in Asia and participation in NPR’s Peabody-winning tobacco investigation. ((https://www.towson.edu/news/2022/weiner-literature-prize.html?utm_source=openai))

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Culture is the sea we swim in. It matters a lot more than we think
-Interview: Geography of Bliss
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Happiness is not inside of us but out there
-The Geography of Bliss
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Reason makes a wonderful servant but a poor master
-Man Seeks God
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Wisdom is portable
-The Socrates Express
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It’s better to travel well than to be well traveled
-A Travel Manifesto: 5 Ways to Be a Better Traveler
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When you’re traveling like this, at a refreshingly human speed, an otherwise invisible world reveals itself
-Why a Train Trip Across the U.S. Is the Fastest Way to Slow Down
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Travel, at its most elemental, is the act of “being here.”
-What It’s Like to Be a Wedding Crasher
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Traveling alone forces me to engage with my surroundings
-Why I Travel Alone
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We consume a lot of images but savor very few
-The Art of Seeing
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Maybe when our attention short-circuits, it’s because we’ve exhausted our effort
-A Better Way to Pay Attention

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"With one single book, Eric Weiner has flushed Bill Bryson down a proverbial toilet, and I say that lovingly"

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