Pico Iyer’s new book Aflame explores silence and gratitude: ‘It’s great to be liberated from oneself’
Pico Iyer, in Aflame, reflects on solitude, gratitude, the necessity of silence, and interconnectedness, promoting a ...
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Learning from silence: Pico Iyer on the transformative power of solitude
Author Pico Iyer chronicles his 100+ retreats to a remote Benedictine hermitage in Big Sur, Northern California; exploring ...
How Silence Improves Pico Iyer’s Life
How to Listen. For decades, starting in 1991 after his house in Santa Barbara burned to the ground, the travel writer and ...
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Years ago, writer Pico Iyer lost everything in a wildfire. This is what he learned
Writer Pico Iyer's eerily timed memoir ... and then really reducing my next eight years of writing — my next three books were all in handwritten notes — to ash," Iyer says. After three hours, Iyer and ...
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Briefly Noted
Aflame, by Pico Iyer (Riverhead). For more than three decades ... Presented as a translation of an out-of-print Japanese text, this National Book Award-winning metafictional novel takes place ...