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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“A Scientist of Sorrow”–a review of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun for Air-Mail, February 27, 2021
“All That We Can’t Leave Behind”—an essay on the photographs of Robert Voit, to accompany the exhibition “Aequilibrium” in Berlin, March, 2021.
An imaginative essay on “Why I Write” and a long interview on writing for the inaugural issue of Good River Review, April 2021
“Truth in Fiction”–an essay on the books that for me are the deepest spiritual texts, for Lion’s Roar, May 2021
A 25-minute talk with tennis legend and broadcaster Patrick McEnroe, for his podcast, “Holding Court”—June 4, 2021
“Age of Invention”—a brief profile of hotel-creating visionary Adrian Zecha in Travel + Leisure, July 2021
“The Joy Inside Sorrow”–an essay on Georg Frideric Handel for an anthology of pieces on music, Ways of Hearing (Princeton University Press), September 2021, excerpted in Lit Hub on September 29, 2021
“My Guidebook to Japan”—a long essay on Henry David Thoreau, for the anthology Now Comes Good Sailing (Princeton University Press), and excerpted in The American Scholar, October 2021.
If you’re interested in hearing Pico Iyer speak, here are a few dates and places to try:
| October 14 | Panel discussion on Thoreau (online) Politics & Prose Bookstore |
| October 27 | Panel discussion on Thoreau (online) Huntington Library |
| October 28 | Conversation with Vijay Gupta, UCSB Santa Barbara, California |
| November 25 | Panel on Jan Morris (online) Royal Society of Literature, London |
| March 2, 2022 | Conversation with Erik Larson, UCSB Santa Barbara, California |
| March 11-16 | Silversea World Cruise 2022 Zanzibar-Mahe |
| April 10-14 | TED Annual Conference Vancouver, Canada |
| April 23 | Conversation with Krista Tippett, SF City Arts San Francisco, California |
| April 29 | Keynote lecture, Travel Con Memphis, Tennessee |
| May 11 | Workshop on stillness (virtual) Six Senses Resorts |
| May 13 | Conversation with Elizabeth Strout, UCSB Santa Barbara, California |
| June 5-9 | Workshop with Abbess Fu Schroeder, Tassajara Carmel, California |
| October 2-9, 2022 | Montgomery Fellow, Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire |
Many more engagements are currently in the works.