Upcoming Events (June 2025)
If you’re interested in hearing Pico Iyer speak, here are a few dates and places to try: June 24 Keynote address, Coca-Cola C.E.O. Summit Napa, California June 30 Keynote lecture, Aspen Ideas Festival Aspen, Colorado July 1 Conversation with Elaine Pagels, Ideas Festival Aspen, Colorado August 18-23 Workshop with Chip Conley, Modern Elder Academy, Santa […]
Some Recent Pieces of Iyer (June 2025)
A long chat with the brilliant Christopher Lydon on Radio Open Source—January 23, 2025. A long talk with Jonathan Bastian on KCRW’s “Life Examined” radio show—January 26, 2025 “To Big Sur, with Love”—an essay on the enchanted coastline for The Guardian, February 1, 2025. Numerous podcasts with Jonathan Fields, Elise Loehnen, Mitch Joel, James Shaheen, […]
Some Recent Pieces of Iyer (January 2025)
“Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Son”—a review of Nick Harkaway’s novel Karla’s Choice, published in Air Mail, October 21, 2024 “The Moving River”—a short essay on my 37 years in Japan to go with Magdalena Sole’s series of seven artist’s books chronicling her 33 years of visits to the country—October 2024. “The Zendo called the World”—an essay […]
Upcoming Events (January 2025)
If you’re interested in hearing Pico Iyer speak, here are a few dates and places to try: Jan. 27 Conversation about Aflame, Zen Luminaries Podcast Online Jan. 28 Conversation around Aflame, Vroman’s Books Pasadena, California Jan. 30 Conversation on Aflame, Books and Books and others Online Feb. 23 Conversation with Richard Powers, UCSB Santa Barbara, […]
Upcoming Events (September 2024)
If you’re interested in hearing Pico Iyer speak, here are a few dates and places to try: September 14 Jaipur Literature Festival Boulder Boulder, Colorado Sept. 16 Conversation with Katherine Bucknell, Huntington Lib. San Marino, California Sept. 22 Keynote, Trinity Church Wall Street New York, New York Sept. 23-Oct. 12 Montgomery Fellow, Dartmouth College Hanover, […]
Some Recent Pieces of Iyer (September 2024)
“Leave Your Ideas—and Ideologies—Behind”–an essay on how travel can help us overcome our prejudices, for the new magazine in India, The Nod, May 2024 “Calm Behind the Clamour”–an essay on the new Six Senses, Kyoto and the city around it—Conde Nast Traveller (U.K.), July/August 2024 “Prague’s Second Act”–a longish account of the capital of the […]
Some Recent Pieces of Iyer (April 2024)
“How Far Would you Travel for Happiness?”–A rich conversation with Marianna Pogosyan for her Psychology Today blog, posted November 8, 2023. “Our constant search for Paradise”—a long interview with the TED Radio Hour, broadcast on November 10, 2023 A long and rich e-mail conversation with Caryl Phillips, on migration and exile, in The Palgrave Handbook […]
Upcoming Events (April 2024)
If you’re interested in hearing Pico Iyer speak, here are a few dates and places to try: April 9 Conversation for Lauren Groff, UCSB A&L Santa Barbara, California April 11 Keynote, Convent and Stuart Hall School San Francisco, California April 13 Conversation for Book Passage Book Group (virtual) Corte Madera, California April 16 Conversation with […]
Upcoming Events (October 2023)
If you’re interested in hearing Pico Iyer speak, here are a few dates and places to try: October 25 Conversation for UCSB’s Lifelong Learning InitiativeSanta Barbara, California October 26 Conversation with Walter Isaacson for UCSB A&L Santa Barbara, California October 30 Conversation with the Zen Luminaries series (online) Santa Rosa, California November 6 Keynote, International […]
Some Recent Pieces of Iyer (October 2023)
An hour-long interview with Doug Fabrizio for Radio West on KUER, April 6, 2023. A long talk with the wonderful editor Melvin McLeod for the Lion’s Roar podcast, April 17, 2023, excerpted in the July/August edition of Lion’s Roar. “The Man from Everywhere”—a short essay to introduce the latest book of photography from Basil Pao, […]