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:
| April 5 | Conversation with Maria Popova, UCSB Arts & Lectures Santa Barbara, California |
| April 6 | Conversation with Mohsin Hamid, City Arts & Lectures San Francisco, California |
| April 10-14 | TED Conference (2 workshops on Travel as Transport) Vancouver, British Columbia |
| April 16-20 | Distinguished Presidential Fellow, Chapman University Orange, California |
| April 16 | Talk on Stillness, Center 1888 Orange, California |
| April 24 | Conversation with Don George, Carmel Public Library Carmel, California |
| April 29 | Keynote and conversation, Bay Area Book Festival Berkeley, California |
| May 3 | Conversation with Anthony Doerr, UCSB Arts-Lectures Santa Barbara, California |
| May 5 | Stillness Lecture/Workshop for Hollyhock Retreat Vancouver, British Columbia |
| May 13 | Chartered Financial Analyst Annual Conference Hong Kong |
| May 25-27 | Mountainfilm Festival Telluride, Colorado |
| June 17 | Ross Macdonald Award, SB Writers Conference Santa Barbara, California |
| June 22 | Keynote Talk, Mile-Hi Church Denver, Colorado |
| June 30 | Musical/Literary event with Fr. Cyprian Consiglio Henry Miller Library, Big Sur, |
| July 6-10 | Workshop on Writing and Zen with Fu Schroeder Tassajara, California |
| July 15-20 | Travel Journal Workshop with Janet Fitch, Esalen Big Sur, California |
| August 31-September 2 | Telluride Film Festival Telluride, Colorado |
| January 6-18 2019 | Two talks, Silversea World Cruise San Francisco, California-Papeete |
| January 30-Feb. 1, 2019 | Rancho Mirage Writers’ Festival Rancho Mirage, California |
| August 28-Sept. 2, 2019 | Telluride Film Festival Telluride, Colorado |
| September 2019 | Berlin Literature Festival Berlin, Germany |
| October 11-13 | Southern Festival of Books Nashville, Tennessee |
| November 2019 | Singapore Writers’ Festival Singapore |
Many more engagements are currently in the works.
“Troubled Waters”-a review of Richard Lloyd Parry’s Ghosts of the Tsunami, for the New York Times Book Review, December 31, 2017.
“The River”-a short essay on the meaning of change, for the great young British magazine Satori, December 2017
“Why I’m an Optimist”-an essay for Elle India, January 2018.
“Damaraland, Namibia-Where `Each Day Lasts 100 Hours’ “-The Observer, January 20, 2018
“The Kiss”-a short piece about Damascus in the anthology, The Kiss, published by W.W. Norton February 14, 2018.
“The Hero: Depths and Surfaces”-an essay on Satyajit Ray’s film Nayak, written for the Criterion Collection DVD released on February 20, 2018, and appearing (in very different form) in NYR Daily, the blog of The New York Review of Books, as “Satyajit Ray’s Hero Revisited” on February 27, 2018
“Under Mongolian Skies”-an essay on Mongolia, for WSJ, the magazine of the Wall Street Journal, March 2018.