Tatler Singapore

A QUEST FOR MYSTERY

Trust a writer to be attuned to the communicative power of a symbol. At one point during this interview, author Pico Iyer shows me the key card he has been given for his stay at Raffles Singapore as its first writer-in-residence. Its technological guts are encased in leather, which is embossed with the face of British novelist Somerset Maugham—just one of the many renowned guests to have stayed in the iconic hotel.

“It’s perfect,

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