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Upcoming events (May 2016)

If you’re interested in hearing Pico Iyer talk, here are a few dates and places to try: May 17-21, 2016 Festival of Faiths Louisville, Kentucky Many more engagements are currently in the works.


Upcoming events (April 2016)

If you’re interested in hearing Pico Iyer talk, here are a few dates and places to try: April 10-15, 2016 Distinguished Presidential Fellow, Chapman University Orange, California April, 2016 United States Military Academy West Point, New York Many more engagements are currently in the works.


Upcoming events (October 2015)

If you’re interested in hearing Pico Iyer talk, here are a few dates and places to try: October 12, 2015 Conversation with environmental visionary Paul Relis Santa Barbara, California October 13, 2015 Conversation with Paul Theroux Los Angeles, California October 16, 2015 Moderating of a discussion between H.H. the Dalai Lama and Richard Blum, American […]


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.


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 […]


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