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AUSTIN R. PICK was born in North Carolina and has traveled widely while pursuing his interest in contemplative practice and a love of the world’s wild places. He served as a contributing editor of Along the Path: The Meditator's Companion to the Buddha's Land, published by Pariyatti Press. Austin's writing has also appeared in Adbusters Magazine and at KenWilber.com. He lives in Chicago.

So let there be no equivocation about statement, and if you think this is not hard to do, try it. You'll find
that your lies are heavier than your intentions. And your confessions are lighter than Heaven...
Jack Kerouac  ·  from a 1959 letter to Don Allen in Heaven and Other Poems (1977)

Remember the Alamo
FICTION · Adbusters Magazine, Nov/Dec 2004

"All your locks are languidly tensile, like the broken radio towers we saw hanging from the buildings in San Antonio after the fires started, when they were burning the last of the gas from the police cars and singing in the streets..." READ ON >>

A Wider Rotation
NONFICTION · Kenwilber.com, July 2007

"Of all places, lying sprawled on the driveway and smoking a mint cigarette, the summer night air holding me to the earth, asphalt warm against my back, I suddenly became aware of the almost imperceptible rotation of the planet." READ ON >>

Six Months on the Subcontinent
TRAVEL DISPATCHES FROM NEPAL AND INDIA

From Himalayan highlands to tropical backwaters, Shauna and I immersed ourselves in the dynamic lands and cultures of South Asia. More an encounter than a destination, India offers all of itself with shocking immediacy, and a journey there is truly a traveler’s rite of passage. These dispatches document ours...

PART ONE | PART TWO | PART THREE | PART FOUR | PART FIVE

Tales from Turtle Island
A Year on the Road in North America

After graduating from college in 2004, I set off to adventure around North America for a year with no a real plan at all, living in a van and following the emerging vectors between meditation centers, friends and fellow travelers, mountains and wildlands, work, whim and intimation. This series chronicles my year on the road...

PART ONE | PART TWO | PART THREE

My nourishment is refined from the ongoing circus of the mind in motion.
Give me the odd linguistic trip, stutter and fall, and I will be content. —Donald Barthelme

RECENT ADDITIONS

Getting Out of Your Own Way
Interview with Chris Wood
Circling the Abode of Snow
20 days trekking in the Himalayas
Billion People in a Coconut Shell
Afloat in Southwestern India
Wobbling Your Head at Me?
Travels in Western India
Aboard the Mahabodhi Express
India's Buddhist Pilgrim's Paths
 

NOW AVAILABLE

Along the Path

Along the Path:
The Meditator's Companion
to the Buddha's Land

I served as a contributing editor on this unique travel guide for India and Nepal.
Now available from Pariyatti Press.

"A big part of serious fiction’s purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of marooned in her own skull, to give her imaginative access to other selves. We all suffer alone in the real world; true empathy is impossible. But if a piece of fiction can allow us to imaginatively identify with a character’s pain, then we might also more easily conceive of others identifying with our own. This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside. It might just be that simple."

—David Foster Wallace
Distilled from a 1993 Interview

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