Some Recent Pieces of Iyer (April 2023)
“The Vedanta Temple: Our Second, Deeper Home”—a short essay for the Santa Barbara Independent, October 15, 2022 “A Man of Parts”–a review of A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carre, for Air Mail, December 3, 2022 A discussion of le Carre, on “Monday Meeting,” the Air Mail podcast, December 5, 2022 My annual […]
Upcoming Events (April 2023)
If you’re interested in hearing Pico Iyer speak, here are a few dates and places to try: April 18 A workshop on Paradise, TEDVancouver, Canada April 22 Two Panels, Los Angeles Times Festival of BooksLos Angeles, California April 27 Conversation with Isabella Rossellini, UCSB Santa Barbara, California May 2 Keynote, Seattle Arts and Lectures at […]
Upcoming Events (November 2022)
If you’re interested in hearing Pico Iyer speak, here are a few dates and places to try: November 6 Conversation with Jennifer Egan, UCSB Arts & LecturesSanta Barbara, California November 9 Onstage conversations, Sharjah International Book Fair Sharjah, United Arab Emirates December 3 Keynote Lecture, Bangalore Literature FestivalBangalore, India January 13, 2023 Presentation of The […]
Some Recent Pieces of Iyer (November 2022)
Around Deer’s Slope”–an essay on walking for the book Where My Feet Fall, published by William Collins in Britain and excerpted in Orion, as “Never the Same River Twice,” March 16, 2022 “At a Loss”–an essay on Juzo Itami’s film The Funeral, for a new Criterion Collection DVD and Blu-Ray released on May 17, 2022, […]
Some Recent Pieces of Iyer (March 2022)
“On Travel-Writing”—an interview with Rick Steves, broadcast on public radio stations across the U.S. on November 7, 2021 “The Future of Hope”—a conversation with Elizabeth Gilbert broadcast for the “On Being” show and podcast on public radio stations across the U.S. on November 18, 2021 “Navigating the Poles”—an Opinion piece on traveling between Japan and […]
Upcoming events (March 2022)
If you’re interested in hearing Pico Iyer speak, here are a few dates and places to try: March 2 Conversation with Erik Larson, UCSBSanta Barbara, California March 3 Universal-McCann Client SummitOjai, California March 9-16 Silversea World Cruise 2022Zanzibar-Mahe April 23 Conversation with Krista Tippett, SF City ArtsSan Francisco, California April 29 Keynote lecture, Travel ConMemphis, […]
Some Recent Pieces of Iyer (October 2021)
“A Scientist of Sorrow”–a review of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun for Air-Mail, February 27, 2021 “All That We Can’t Leave Behind”—an essay on the photographs of Robert Voit, to accompany the exhibition “Aequilibrium” in Berlin, March, 2021. An imaginative essay on “Why I Write” and a long interview on writing for the inaugural […]
Upcoming events (October 2021)
If you’re interested in hearing Pico Iyer speak, here are a few dates and places to try: October 14 Panel discussion on Thoreau (online)Politics & Prose Bookstore October 27 Panel discussion on Thoreau (online)Huntington Library October 28 Conversation with Vijay Gupta, UCSBSanta Barbara, California November 25 Panel on Jan Morris (online)Royal Society of Literature, London […]
Upcoming events (February 2021)
If you’re interested in hearing Pico Iyer speak, here are a few dates and places to try: February 16, 17, 18, 2021 Two lectures and a conversation (online) Santa Fe Workshops March 6 A class on creativity (with Michael Shapiro), online Book Passage/Extended Sessions March 14 An interview with Kazuo Ishiguro Book Passage/Extended Sessions March […]
Some Recent Pieces of Iyer (February 2021)
“Chi ha dimenticato vuole transcinarci in un mondo di muri”–An interview with La Repubblica on the 75th anniversary of the dropping of a bomb on Hiroshima—August 6, 2020 “The Best Reason to Go to College”—an Op-Ed on the beginning of the new school year, for The New York Times, September 7, 2020 “The Power of […]