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 talk, here are a few dates and places to try:
| February 18 | Keynote, India Infoline Global Investors’ Conference Mumbai, India |
| February 29 | Conversation with Sebastiao Salgado, ALOUD series Los Angeles, California |
| March 2 | Conversation with Sebastiao Salgado, UCSB Santa Barbara, California |
| April 9-10 | Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Los Angeles, California |
| April 11-15 | Distinguished Presidential Fellow, Chapman University Orange, California |
| April 11-15 | Conversation with Richard Bausch, Chapman University Orange, California |
| April 13 | Orange County Register Book Club Santa Ana, California |
| April 20 | Conversation with Krista Tippett, UCSB Santa Barbara, California |
| April 25-29 | Lecture, United States Military Academy West Point, New York |
| May 5 | Lecture, Visit Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, California |
| May 17-21 | Festival of Faiths Louisville, Kentucky |
| May 24 | Conversation with Geoff Dyer, City Arts San Francisco, California |
| June 9-12 | Three-day Workshop with Abbess Fu Schroeder Tassajara, near Carmel, California |
| June 15 | Conversation with Ian Buruma, Asian Cultural Council New York, New York |
| June 16 | Lecture, International Festival of Arts and Ideas New Haven, Connecticut |
| June 26-30 | TED Summit Banff, Canada |
| August 8 | Virtuoso Travel Week Las Vegas, Nevada |
| January 19-22, 2017 | Rancho Mirage Writers’ Festival Rancho Mirage, California |
| March 7-11, 2017 | Emirates Festival of Literature Dubai, United Arab Emirates |
| September 1-4, 2017 | Telluride Film Festival Telluride, Colorado |
Many more engagements are currently in the works.
“Empty Cities”—a meditation on Las Vegas and Pyongyang, NYR Daily, the New York Review of Books blog, August 13, 2015.
“History Has no Place’”—a mistitled essay on Japan’s unsentimental taking care of sentiment—New York Times T Magazine, August 23, 2015.
“The Disappearance of Self in Japan”—an essay for the Berggruen Institute of Philosophy and Culture—Huffnington (World) Post, October 13, 2015.
“From Silence, Clarity”—a brief essay on the New Camaldoli Hermitage, appearing in Coast (The Orange Country Register magazine), October 25, 2015 and in The Orange County Register itself on December 20, 2015.
“The Unreal World”—an essay on authenticity in travel, New York Times T Magazine, November 15, 2015
Ikiru Many Autumns Later—an essay for Criterion DVD’s reissue of Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru on November 23, 2015, which appeared, under a different title, on NYR Daily, the New York Review of Books blog, on December 30, 2015.