Jan 15, 2025 · Southern California families who have lost everything the in recent wildfires are reckoning with what it means to start over. Writer Pico Iyer's eerily timed memoir, Aflame: Learning from Silence ...

Jan 18, 2025 · The fires that were an occasional threat when our house burned down are regular visitors now to California and across the West. Insurance policies in these parts are ever harder to acquire.

4 days ago · Such is the case with Pico Iyer's new book, Aflame: Learning from Silence. On its pages, Iyer shares wisdom from his three decades of visiting a small monastery in California and embracing silence. "Strange, how rich it feels to be cleansed of all chatter," he writes. You could say any of Iyer's 15 books falls into readers' hands serendipitously.

Jan 23, 2025 · Southern California families who have lost everything the in recent wildfires are reckoning with what it means to start over. Writer Pico Iyer’s eerily timed memoir, Aflame: Learning from Silence , speaks to that experience.

Jan 15, 2025 · Southern California families who have lost everything the in recent wildfires are reckoning with what it means to start over. Writer Pico Iyer's eerily timed memoir, Aflame: Learning from Silence, speaks to that experience. In 1990, Iyer was alone in his mother's house in Santa Barbara when a wildfire swept through the region.

Aflame: Learning from Silence is a 2025 memoir by Pico Iyer, published by Riverhead Books. It concerns Iyer's experiences with his many retreats to a hermitage in Big Sur and his reflections on solitude and spirituality. [1] The book is due to release on January 14, 2025.

5 days ago · Looking for a temporary shelter and a place to retreat for a while, Iyer fled north to Big Sur. There he found solace at a secluded Benedictine hermitage offering a peaceful, monastic environment for $30 a night. The moment Pico Iyer arrived at the secluded hermitage, something shifted. “The silence was pulsing,” he recalls.

Jan 16, 2025 · After a lifetime of travel around the world, Pico Iyer has increasingly focused on inner landscapes. Credit: Kentaro Takahashi for The New York Times . By Anderson Tepper. Jan. 3, 2025, 5:00 a.m. ET ... the temple offers sweeping views of the bucolic California town and the ocean shimmering in the distance, and it provided Iyer with an early ...

Jan 21, 2025 · After his family home burned down in a California wildfire in the 1990s, journalist Pico Iyer found refuge in an unlikely location: a small Benedictine hermitage outside of Big Sur. Though Iyer initially arrived looking for a bed to sleep in, he soon found the silence of monastic life transformative, and over the course of the past thirty-three years, he has returned to the hermitage more than ...

Jan 21, 2025 · Pico Iyer, author of Aflame, right, interviewed by Don George at Book Passage in Corte Madera, California (just north of San Francisco) on Jan. 15, 2025. Iyer had thousands of pages of notes and could have written a hefty tome, but in …