Eric Wein­er is author of the New York Times best­seller The Geog­ra­phy of Bliss, which has been trans­lat­ed into twen­ty lan­guages, as well as the crit­i­cal­ly acclaimed Man Seeks God. A for­mer cor­re­spon­dent for NPR and The New York Times, Weiner’s work has appeared in The New Repub­lic, Slate, Los Ange­les Times, Wash­ing­ton Post, For­eign Pol­i­cy, The New York Times Mag­a­zine, and the anthol­o­gy Best Amer­i­can Trav­el Writing.