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Pico Iyer USC Baccalaureate Speech, USC Baccalaureate 2015

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Some Fresh Pieces of Iyer (May 2015)

“The Ultimate McTraveler—One Man’s Quest to See the World through McDonald’s”—Yahoo Travel, February 26, 2015 “Negotiating with Iran and Farhadi’s Films”–an essay on the films of Arshad Farhadi—The World Post, April 22, 2015. “Resume vs. Eulogy”—a review of David Brooks’s The Road to Character—The New York Times Book Review, April 26, 2015


Upcoming events (August 2015)

If you’re interested in hearing Pico Iyer talk, here are a few dates and places to try: August 9, 2015 Lectures for Virtuoso Travel Week Las Vegas, Nevada Many more engagements are currently in the works.


Upcoming events (July 2015)

If you’re interested in hearing Pico Iyer talk, here are a few dates and places to try: July 24, 2015 Public reading, for San Francisco Zen Center San Francisco, California (Grace Cathedral) July 25, 2015 Private workshop, San Francisco Zen Center San Francisco, California (Grace Cathedral) Many more engagements are currently in the works.


An Interview with Pico Iyer

This interview appeared in an issue of Inquiring Mind a couple of issues ago. Reading My Way to the Threshold of the Great Unanswerable An Interview with Pico Iyer Pico Iyer is a novelist, essayist, journalist and travel writer, whose writing explores both the outer and inner world at once. His books include The Open […]


Some Fresh Pieces of Iyer

“In Search of a Quiet Life”–an excerpt in the Sunday Times (U.K.) from The Art of Stillness—November 23, 2014. “We are living at a post-human pace”–an interview with The Guardian on The Art of Stillness, November 25, 2014. “Heart of Lightness”—on the thatched villages of central Japan, Conde Nast Traveler, January 2015. “Healthy Body, Unhealthy […]


Upcoming events (September 2015)

If you’re interested in hearing Pico Iyer talk, here are a few dates and places to try: September 20, 2015 Brooklyn Book Festival Brooklyn, New York September 25-27, 2015 Pebble Beach Ideas Festival Carmel, California Many more engagements are currently in the works.


Upcoming events (June 2015)

If you’re interested in hearing Pico Iyer talk, here are a few dates and places to try: June 6, 2015 Conversation with Gopi Kallayil, on The Art of Stillness Berkeley, California June 7, 2015 Conversation with Matthieu Ricard on Altruism Berkeley, California June 9, 2015 Conversation with Matthieu Ricard, Live Talks L.A. Los Angeles, California […]


Upcoming events (May 2015)

If you’re interested in hearing Pico Iyer talk, here are a few dates and places to try: May 1, 2015 Conversation with Michael Ondaatje, Wellesley College Wellesley, Massachusetts May 2, 2015 A conference on \”House and Home,\” Wellesley College Wellesley, Massachusetts May 6, 2015 Walrus Talks-Play, Games and Sport Toronto, Canada May 7, 2015 Lecture, […]


Upcoming events (March 2015)

If you’re interested in hearing Pico Iyer talk, here are a few dates and places to try: March 5, 2015 Hospitality Design Summit Dana Point, California March 16-20, 2015 TED Conference Vancouver, Canada Many more engagements are currently in the works.


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