Pico Iyer and Raffles Hotel, or the Nowhere Hotel
about 60 months ago (01/21/2020)
Pico Iyer and Raffles Hotel, or the Nowhere Hotel | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Derek Shapton; Epigram Books January 21, 2020 Celebrated writer Pico Iyer spent fifteen days in Singapore last August doing a residency at the newly reopened Raffles Hotel as its first official writer-in-residence. His new book, titled This Could Be Home: Raffles Hotel and the City of Tomorrow , published by Epigram Books, is a reflection on the hotel’s literary legacy, having been host to writers such as Hermann Hesse, Pablo Neruda and Ernest Hemingway in its 132 years of existence. He also draws on his own encounters with the hotel, which he now dubs “Raffles 3.0”.