I’m more than a little surprised to find myself in this box: my idea of NEWS is something that happened in 1848, and I think there are better things to advertise and take notice of than my tiny doings or scribbles.
But now that DDB Singapore has brought me into the 20th century – with every sign of coaxing me into the 21st – I’m happy to welcome anyone who’s interested to this space, where we may now and then post something that’s not easily found elsewhere, a video clip from our recent journeys or something that might be of interest to anyone who’s traveled as far as this unexpected corner.
Thank you for your time and attention, and if you’re irritated by something here, please blame the brilliant designers of these pages. Without them, I’d still be in some black hole!
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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, New Hampshire |
| Sept. 30 | Keynote, Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Oct. 1 | Lecture, Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire |
| Oct. 7 | Roundtable discussion, Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire |
| Oct. 29 | Conversation with Yung Pueblo, UCSB Santa Barbara, California |
| Nov. 15-17 | Mumbai Literature Festival Mumbai, India |
| January 14, 2025 | Conversation around new book, Aflame, Kepler’s Menlo Park, California |
| Jan. 15 | Conversation about Aflame, Book Passage Corte Madera, California |
| Jan. 16 | Conversation around Aflame, Elliott Bay Books Seattle, Washington |
| Jan. 21 | Conversation around Aflame, City of Asylum Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Jan. 22 | Conversation around Aflame, Asia Society New York New York, New York |
| Jan 27 | 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, 2025 | Conversation with Richard Powers, UCSB Santa Barbara, California |
| April 26-27 | Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Los Angeles, California |
| April 28-May 1 | Keynote, Chapman University Orange, California |
| May 6 | Conversation with Marina Abramovic, UCSB Santa Barbara, California |
| August 18-23 | Workshop, Modern Elder Academy Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| October | Bali Literature Festival Ubud, Indonesia |
Many more engagements are currently in the works.
“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 Czech Republic for AAA Explorer, July 2024 and Westways, August 2024.
“Awakening to Rain”—an essay to go with the new album, “Migratory,” by Masayoshi Fujita, released August 2024.
“A Singular Man”—a review of Katherine Bucknell’s Christopher Isherwood Inside Out for Air Mail, August 17, 2024.