"A trip has really been successful if I come back sounding strange even to myself," writes Iyer (The Global Soul , Falling off the Map ; etc.) near the beginning of his latest travel book ...

When the cacophony of the world grows too loud, author Pico Iyer knows just ... Ahead of an appearance at Book Passage in Corte Madera on Jan. 15, Iyer spoke with the Chronicle by Zoom from ...

(AP) — On a quiet summer evening in June 1990, Pico Iyer sat in his ... many who came to hear Iyer speak clutched his book with a fiery orange cover titled “Aflame: Learning from Silence." ...

Aflame, Learning From Silence, the newest book by Pico Iyer, the bestselling author of more than a dozen books translated in more than 20 languages, is a powerful recital of Iyer’s experiences ...

Pico Iyer is no stranger to the disaster now visiting residents of Los Angeles. In 1990, a wildfire burned down his family home in Southern California and everything inside. In his latest book ...