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Upcoming events (April 2018)

If you’re interested in hearing Pico Iyer speak, here are a few dates and places to try:

California

April 5	Conversation with Maria Popova, UCSB Arts & Lectures Santa Barbara, California
April 6	Conversation with Mohsin Hamid, City Arts & Lectures San Francisco, California
April 10-14	TED Conference (2 workshops on Travel as Transport) Vancouver, British Columbia
April 16-20	Distinguished Presidential Fellow, Chapman University Orange, California
April 16	Talk on Stillness, Center 1888 Orange, California
April 24	Conversation with Don George, Carmel Public Library Carmel, California
April 29	Keynote and conversation, Bay Area Book Festival Berkeley, California
May 3	Conversation with Anthony Doerr, UCSB Arts-Lectures Santa Barbara, California
May 5	Stillness Lecture/Workshop for Hollyhock Retreat Vancouver, British Columbia
May 13	Chartered Financial Analyst Annual Conference Hong Kong
May 25-27	Mountainfilm Festival Telluride, Colorado
June 17	Ross Macdonald Award, SB Writers Conference Santa Barbara, California
June 22	Keynote Talk, Mile-Hi Church Denver, Colorado
June 30	Musical/Literary event with Fr. Cyprian Consiglio Henry Miller Library, Big Sur,
July 6-10	Workshop on Writing and Zen with Fu Schroeder Tassajara, California
July 15-20	Travel Journal Workshop with Janet Fitch, Esalen Big Sur, California
August 31-September 2	Telluride Film Festival Telluride, Colorado
January 6-18 2019	Two talks, Silversea World Cruise San Francisco, California-Papeete
January 30-Feb. 1, 2019	Rancho Mirage Writers’ Festival Rancho Mirage, California
August 28-Sept. 2, 2019	Telluride Film Festival Telluride, Colorado
September 2019	Berlin Literature Festival Berlin, Germany
October 11-13	Southern Festival of Books Nashville, Tennessee
November 2019	Singapore Writers’ Festival Singapore

Many more engagements are currently in the works.

Posted in Upcoming EventsPosted on April 4, 2018

Some Recent Pieces of Iyer (April 2018)

“Troubled Waters”-a review of Richard Lloyd Parry’s Ghosts of the Tsunami, for the New York Times Book Review, December 31, 2017.

“The River”-a short essay on the meaning of change, for the great young British magazine Satori, December 2017

“Why I’m an Optimist”-an essay for Elle India, January 2018.

“Damaraland, Namibia-Where `Each Day Lasts 100 Hours’ “-The Observer, January 20, 2018

“The Kiss”-a short piece about Damascus in the anthology, The Kiss, published by W.W. Norton February 14, 2018.

“The Hero: Depths and Surfaces”-an essay on Satyajit Ray’s film Nayak, written for the Criterion Collection DVD released on February 20, 2018, and appearing (in very different form) in NYR Daily, the blog of The New York Review of Books, as “Satyajit Ray’s Hero Revisited” on February 27, 2018

“Under Mongolian Skies”-an essay on Mongolia, for WSJ, the magazine of the Wall Street Journal, March 2018.

Posted in New Writings, NewsPosted on April 3, 2018

Some Recent Pieces of Iyer (September 2017)

“The Mysterious Man who Gave me Japan”—a short essay on a friend I met in Kyoto for the “Chance Encounter” section of BBC Travel—April 19, 2017

“Journey into Terror”—an essay on a trip to Yemen, for the debut issue of Anastomas, Chapman University’s interdisciplinary journal—April 2017

“Nymphets in the New Japan”—a long essay on the novels of Junichiro Tanizaki, New York Review of Books, June 8, 2017.

“As the Spirits Move You”—an essay on the Kumano Kodo pilgrimage course in Japan and the holy shrines at Ise in Travel & Leisure, June 2017.

“Destination Nowhere”—a short essay on the beauty of missing one’s flight, in National Geographic Traveler, June/July 2017.

A chat on the phone with Paul Holdengraber, director of New York Public Library Live, on LitHub, posted July 13, 2017

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A podcast with Christopher Lydon of Radio Open Source, celebrating Thoreau’s 200th birthday—posted July 16, 2017

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An introduction to the record AWAKENING BEYOND, released in August 2017.

“Killers in Saffron Robes”—an essay on Barbet Schroeder’s new film The Venerable W. for Film Watch, the Telluride Film Festival paper, September 1, 2017.

“Why There’s More to Travel than your Instagram Feed”—A long answer to a short question—“How has travel changed in the past 30 years?”—posted on cntraveler.com, September 6, 2017.

“My Latest Passage to India”—an essay describing a virtual journey around India, accompanied by Ingrid Schaffner, Curator of Carnegie International 2018, and Doryun Chang, Chief Curator of the coming Hong Kong Museum M+, for the Carnegie International 2018 website, and the catalogue that appears next year, posted September 2017

“Out of the Cell”—an essay on the limits of the Mind, for granta.com, posted September 18, 2017.

Posted in New WritingsPosted on September 18, 2017

Upcoming events (September 2017)

If you’re interested in hearing Pico Iyer speak, here are a few dates and places to try:

October 10	Coca-Cola CMO Leadership Summit Palo Alto, California
November 29	Conversation with Zadie Smith, UCSB Arts & Lectures Santa Barbara, California
January 11	Conversation with BJ Miller, UCSB Arts & Lecture Santa Barbara, California
January 24-29	Jaipur Literary Festival Jaipur, India
April 5	Conversation with Maria Popova, UCSB Arts & Lectures Santa Barbara, California
April 16-20	Distinguished Presidential Fellow, Chapman University Orange, California
April 21, 22	Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Los Angeles, California
May 3	Conversation with Anthony Doerr, UCSB Arts-Lectures Santa Barbara, California
May 5	Stillness Lecture/Workshop for Hollyhock Retreat Vancouver, British Columbia
June 22	Talk, Mile-Hi Church Denver, Colorado
July 6-10	Workshop on Writing and Zen with Fu Schroeder Tassajara, California
July 15-20	Travel Journal Workshop with Janet Fitch, Esalen Big Sur, California
January 2019	Silversea World Cruise
November 2019	Singapore Writers’ Festival Singapore

Many more engagements are currently in the works.

Posted in Upcoming EventsPosted on September 18, 2017

Upcoming events (Mar 2017)

If you’re interested in hearing Pico Iyer speak, here are a few dates and places to try:

March 18	India Today Conclave Mumbai, India
April 5	Conversation with Andrew McCarthy, Live Talks L.A. Los Angeles, California
April 16-21	Distinguished Presidential Fellow, Chapman U. Orange, California
April 24-28	TED Conference Vancouver, Canada
May 6, 2017	Conversation with Elizabeth Gilbert, UCSB Santa Barbara, California
May 9, 2017	Conversation with Iain Levine, Human Rights Watch Santa Barbara, California
May	Talk on Travel, Concur San Francisco, California
May	Talk on Travel, HANA/Haus Palo Alto, California
May 21	Commencement Ceremony, Chapman University Orange, California
June 2	Q and A after “I’m Your Man” screening Los Angeles, California
June 9-12	Workshop with Abbess Fu Schroeder, Tassajara Carmel Valley, California
July 23	Conversation with Janet Fitch, SB Musem of Art Santa Barbara, California
July 28	Lecture, Mile Hi Church Denver, Colorado
September 1-4	Telluride Film Festival, Telluride, Colorado
January 19-23	Jaipur Literary Festival Jaipur, India
July 15-20	Travel Journal Workshop with Janet Fitch, Esalen Big Sur, California

Many more engagements are currently in the works.

Posted in News, Upcoming EventsPosted on March 13, 2017

Some Recent Pieces of Iyer (March 2017)

“The Beauty of What We’ll Never Know” —a talk for ted..com (originally delivered as the closing talk at the TED Summit in Banff, June 30, 2016), posted October 11, 2016

“How the Light Goes Out”—an essay on Leonard Cohen’s new album, “You Want it Darker,” on Walrus.com, October 20, 2016, updated and revised in The Walrus magazine, January/February 2017 issue.

“Cohen lived in the thick of it”—a short tribute to Cohen the man that appeared in Canada an hour or two after his death was announced—The Globe & Mail, November 11, 2016.

“Inside Fidel Castro’s Cuba and his Legacy”—an essay on Castro’s Cuba, as seen over 26 years on the island—Time.com, November 26, 2016

An interview on the meaning of home in a post-Trump world, Macleans.com December 9, 2016.

“The Country Full of Contradictions”—an interview on Cuba for BBC Travel, December 19, 2016.

“The Talk That Changed My Life”—an essay on Brazilian C.E.O. Ricardo Semler’s TED Talk—ted.com December 29, 2016.

“What Do we Know?”—an essay on the limits of knowledge and the year just past —The New York Times, January 1, 2017

“The remote Alaskan town that’s big in Japan”—an essay on the Japanese fascination with the Northern Lights—Financial Times, March 4-5, 2017

“Storms threaten their monastic way of life”—an Op-Ed piece on rains and monks in the Los Angeles Times, March 5, 2017

Guest Editor, debut issue of the new magazine, Satori, launched March 16, 2017.

An essay on Bucket-Lists, Travel & Leisure, April 207

“Yesterday”—a piece on The Beatles and their famous ballad in the anthology, In Their Lives, published May 23, 2017, and excerpted in the special Met Issue of Vogue, May 2017.

Posted in New Writings, NewsPosted on March 13, 2017

Some Recent Pieces of Iyer (September 2016)

“A Valentine Day’s treat from Japan”—a short essay on how to savor the romantic’s holiday on a single short street in Kyoto, in Sweet, February 14, 2016.

A long essay on a new biography of film-maker Terrence Malick—The Australian, May 28, 2016.

“The Great Wide Open”—a travel-essay on a recent trip to Mongolia, in Travel & Leisure, June 2016.

“The Man Who Told Futures”—a reminiscence of a moment in Kathmandu, 1985, in Lion’s Roar, October 2016, excerpted from a slightly different essay to appear in The Lonely Planet Anthology in November 2016.

Posted in New Writings, NewsPosted on September 26, 2016

Upcoming events (September 2016)

If you’re interested in hearing Pico Iyer talk, here are a few dates and places to try:

September 29	Public conversation, Banff Centre for the Arts Banff, Canada
January 25, 2017	Conversation with Richard Rodriguez, Stanford U. Palo Alto, California
January 28-29, 2017	Rancho Mirage Writers’ Festival Rancho Mirage, California
April 17-22	Distinguished Presidential Fellow, Chapman U. Orange, California
May 6, 2017	Conversation with Elizabeth Gilbert, UCSB Santa Barbara, California
May 17-19	School of Life/Dumbo Feather sermons and chats Melbourne and Sydney, Australia
June 9-12	Workshop with Abbess Fu Schroeder, Tassajara Carmel Valley, California
July 6-15,	Indian Summer Festival of Arts and Ideas Vancouver, Canada
September	Telluride Film Festival, Telluride, Colorado
January	Jaipur Literary Festival Jaipur, India

Many more engagements are currently in the works.

Posted in News, Upcoming EventsPosted on September 26, 2016

Upcoming events (April 2016)

If you’re interested in hearing Pico Iyer talk, here are a few dates and places to try:

April 9-10	Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Los Angeles, California
April 11-15	Distinguished Presidential Fellow, Chapman University Orange, California
April 12	Literary Pub(lishing) Crawl, Chapman University Orange, California
April 13	Conversation with Orange County Register Book Club Santa Ana, California
April 20	Conversation with Krista Tippett, UCSB Santa Barbara, California
April 27	Lecture, United States Military Academy West Point, New York
May 4	Lecture, Visit Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, California
May 17-21	Festival of Faiths Louisville, Kentucky
May 22	Oakland Book Festival Oakland, California
May 25	Conversation with Geoff Dyer, City Arts San Francisco, California
June 5	Conversation with Lewis deSoto at SB Museum of Art Santa Barbara, California
June 9-12	Three-day Workshop with Abbess Fu Schroeder Tassajara, near Carmel, California
June 15	Conversation with Ian Buruma, Asian Cultural Council New York, New York
June 16	Lecture, International Festival of Arts and Ideas New Haven, Connecticut
June 26-30	TED Summit Banff, Canada
August 7	Virtuoso Travel Week Las Vegas, Nevada
August 25-28	Mountain Echoes Literary Festival Thimphu, Bhutan
September 18	Brooklyn Book Festival Brooklyn, New York
September 25-Oct 2	Seminar/Lecture, Banff Centre for the Arts Banff, Canada
January 28-29, 2017	Rancho Mirage Writers’ Festival Rancho Mirage, California
July 6-15, 2017	Indian Summer Festival of Arts and Ideas Vancouver, Canada
September 1-4, 2017	Telluride Film Festival, Telluride, Colorado

Many more engagements are currently in the works.

Posted in News, Upcoming EventsPosted on April 5, 2016

Upcoming events (January 2016)

If you’re interested in hearing Pico Iyer talk, here are a few dates and places to try:

February 18	Keynote, India Infoline Global Investors’ Conference Mumbai, India
February 29	Conversation with Sebastiao Salgado, ALOUD series Los Angeles, California
March 2	Conversation with Sebastiao Salgado, UCSB Santa Barbara, California
April 9-10	Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Los Angeles, California
April 11-15	Distinguished Presidential Fellow, Chapman University Orange, California
April 11-15	Conversation with Richard Bausch, Chapman University Orange, California
April 13	Orange County Register Book Club Santa Ana, California
April 20	Conversation with Krista Tippett, UCSB Santa Barbara, California
April 25-29	Lecture, United States Military Academy West Point, New York
May 5	Lecture, Visit Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, California
May 17-21	Festival of Faiths Louisville, Kentucky
May 24	Conversation with Geoff Dyer, City Arts San Francisco, California
June 9-12	Three-day Workshop with Abbess Fu Schroeder Tassajara, near Carmel, California
June 15	Conversation with Ian Buruma, Asian Cultural Council New York, New York
June 16	Lecture, International Festival of Arts and Ideas New Haven, Connecticut
June 26-30	TED Summit Banff, Canada
August 8	Virtuoso Travel Week Las Vegas, Nevada
January 19-22, 2017	Rancho Mirage Writers’ Festival Rancho Mirage, California
March 7-11, 2017	Emirates Festival of Literature Dubai, United Arab Emirates
September 1-4, 2017	Telluride Film Festival Telluride, Colorado

Many more engagements are currently in the works.

Posted in News, Upcoming EventsPosted on January 5, 2016