On May 26 authors Pico Iyer, Maggie Shipstead and Michelle Tea and editor Colleen Kinder will join book club readers to discuss “Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us.” Get tickets to the free online event.
will join book club readers to discuss “Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us” with Times travel writer“Letter to a Stranger” is a new collection of travel stories that guides readers across the globe and through the mysteries of human connection. Iyer, Shipstead and Tea are among 65 writers who contributed essays about unforgettable encounters that altered their lives in unexpected ways.
In editing the book, Kinder organized the collection around such themes as Gratitude, Wonder, Chemistry, Remorse and Farewell. She says the experience taught her that “nagging ghosts make for glorious muses.” “Yes, our families and institutions raise us, grow us up,” Kinder writes in the introduction, “but so does serendipity, the cast of characters who are randomly assembled in our path."
Iyer writes his letter “To My Lost Trishaw Driver” in Mandalay, Myanmar. Shipstead reaches out “To the Woman We Met Before the Flood” in Pai, Thailand. Tea writes “To the Girl in the Tattoo Parlor” in Dallas, Texas. Other essays recount brushes with a first responder after a storm, a gambler encountered on jury duty, a waiter in Istanbul, a taxi driver in Paris, a roomful of travelers watching reality TV in La Paz, a traveling magician in Nicaragua.is the cofounder of Off Assignment, a nonprofit reading series that grew into an online magazine, and started “Letter to a Stranger” as a regular column.
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