On a quiet summer evening in June 1990, Pico Iyer sat in his family home in Santa Barbara, California, when suddenly, he was ...

Recalling the trauma of losing his worldly goods, the novelist and travel writer uses silence as a path to peace amid ...

Author Pico Iyer chronicles his 100+ retreats to a remote Benedictine hermitage in Big Sur, Northern California; exploring ...

Pico Iyer, the bestselling author of "The Art of Stillness," front right, presents his new book "Aflame: Learning from ...

Pico Iyer, the bestselling author of "The Art of Stillness," presents his book "Aflame: Learning from Silence" at Vroman's ...