Some New Pieces of Iyer (October 2014)
A tiny new Iyer book—The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere– is coming out from TED Books/Simon & Schuster on November 4, 2014, in hardback, e-book and audio book form, the second in the TED Original series, accompanied by a 14-minute talk on ted.com., as well as other related new videos on ted.com and […]
Some Fresh Pieces of Iyer (June 2014)
“A Midsummer Day’s Dream,” an essay on cricket for Wisden India 2014 Almanack: February 2014; “The Winds of Changelessness”—an essay on the 3rd anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake—World Post, March 10, 2014; “Night and Day”—an essay on the collective subconscious in a geopolitical context—World Post, March 17, 2014; “The Folly of Thinking We […]
Upcoming events (June 2014)
If you’re interested in hearing Pico Iyer talk, here are a few dates and places to try: May 29, 2014 Conversation with Takashi Murakami for the Broad Museum at the Orpheum Theater Los Angeles, California August 6, 2014 TED 250 talk New York, New York August 10, 2014 Virtuoso Ltd. “Travel Week” Las Vegas, Nevada […]
Upcoming events (February 2014)
If you’re interested in hearing Pico Iyer talk, here are a few dates and places to try: April 3, 2014 Lecture on Home, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania April 12-13, 2014 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Los Angeles, California April 21-25, 2014 Distinguished Presidential Fellow, Chapman University, Orange, California May 15, 2014 Lecture University of […]
Some Recent Pieces of Iyer
“Hyderabad in Five Colors,” for the New York Review of Books blog, September 5, 2013 “The Value of Suffering,” an essay for The New York Times, September 8, 2013 “Why I Love the National Geographic”–The Guardian, December 8, 2013; “Proust, The Accidental Buddhist”–New York Review of Books blog, December 24, 2013 “The City at the Center of […]
A few recent pieces of Iyer
“Leonard Cohen burns, and we burn with him,” a 10-page meditation on the Zen singer-songwriter in Shambhala Sun magazine (April 2013); “Terrence Malick’s Song of Songs”–an appraisal of To the Wonder for Harpers.com, April 22, 2013; “Reading My Way to the Threshold of the Great Unanswerable”–a discussion with Patrick McMahon in Inquiring Mind magazine, Spring 2013; […]
Upcoming events (September 2013)
If you’re interested in hearing Pico Iyer talk, here are a few dates and places to try: September 10 Altman Fellow Talk on Globalization, Miami University, Miami, Ohio September 12 Reading as Visiting Writer, St. Lawrence University Canton, New York October 8 Conversation with Katherine Boo, UCSB Arts & Lectures Santa Barbara, California October 9 […]
Upcoming events (June 2013)
If you’re interested in hearing Pico Iyer talk, here are a few dates and places to try: June 13 Talk at TEDGlobal Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland September 10 Talk at Miami University, Miami, Ohio September 12 Reading as Visiting Writer, St. Lawrence University Canton, New York October 9 Conversation with Katherine Boo, Central Library Los Angeles, […]
An Online Conversation
An online discussion with New Zealand writer, Alexander Bisley, December, 2012, Mr. Bisley later used some of this in articles he wrote for the Dominion Post and other New Zealand papers. His website is http://lumiere.net.nz 1) “What means the fact—which is so common, so universal—that some soul that has lost all hope for itself can […]
Upcoming events (December 2012)
If you’re interested in hearing Pico Iyer talk, mostly in connection with his new book, The Man Within My Head, here are a few dates and places to try: January 10-13 Key West Literary Seminar: “Writers on Writers” Key West, Florida January 24-28 Jaipur Writers’ Festival Jaipur, India January 30-31 Kolkata Writers’ Festival Kolkata, India […]