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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!
Pico Iyer was born in Oxford, England in 1957. He won a King’s Scholarship to Eton and then a Demyship to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was awarded a Congratulatory Double First with the highest marks of any English Literature student in the university. In 1980 he became a Teaching Fellow at Harvard, where he received a second Master’s degree, and in subsequent years he has received an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters.Since 1982 he has been a full-time writer, publishing 15 books, translated into 23 languages, on subjects ranging from the Dalai Lama to globalism, from the Cuban Revolution to Islamic mysticism. They include such long-running sellers as Video Night in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk, The Global Soul, The Open Road and The Art of Stillness. He has also written the introductions to more than 70 other books, as well as liner and program notes, a screenplay for Miramax and a libretto. At the same time he has been writing up to 100 articles a year for Time, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, the Financial Times and more than 250 other periodicals worldwide.His four talks for TED have received more than 10 million views so far.Since 1992 Iyer has spent much of his time at a Benedictine hermitage in Big Sur, California, and most of the rest in suburban Japan.
All the photos on this site, other than the portraits on the Welcome page and above, are taken by Pico Iyer. In many of these journeys, we’ve put a picture of Bali next to a mention of L.A., and a photo of an old friend next to a mention of Somerset Maugham. That’s not a mistake. In our fluid new century, many places are parts of other places, and all of us are a part of others. Ultimately, Inner World and Outer World may not be so different, either.
If you want to find original, non-syndicated Pico Iyer articles, some of the places where they appear regularly or have appeared in the past include:
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Newspapers & Magazines
United States
Time National Geographic Harper’s The New York Review of Books Smithsonian Vanity Fair Conde Nast Traveler Vogue New York Times (magazine, Op-Ed, Book Review, Travel) Los Angeles Times (magazine, Op-Ed, Book Review, Travel) Washington Post (Opinion, Book World, Travel) Wall Street Journal (Arts pages and magazine) San Francisco Chronicle The New York Daily News Business Week GQ Bon Appetit Men’s Journal Outside Go House and Garden Town and Country Travel Airbnb World Post Readers Digest The New Republic The Nation Sports Illustrated Civilization Architecture CNN National Geographic Traveler Travel & Leisure Departures Saturday Review Aperture Carnegie Museum of Art Real Simple Forbes ASAP Publishers Weekly The Oxford American Colors Black Book Utne Reader The Optimist Buzz New Perspectives Quarterly Johns Hopkins Public Health Lapham’s Quarterly American Prospect AARP Wired Yahoo Internet Life Yahoo Travel Travel Weekly The Believer Carnegie Museum of Art Broad Museum Debut Catalogue Amazon Shorts Ritz-Carlton Magazine Coast (the Orange County Register magazine) St, Moritz Fairmont Magazine Raffles Magazine Virtuoso Life Indagare Orion Salon Daily Beast/Newsweek World Hum Gadling The Smart Set Maptia Wanderlust Recce Ultima Thule Airbnbmag AOL Travel Lit Hub Sweet Village Voice Tricycle Mindful Spy Publishers Weekly Soma Second Act Backpacking Off Assignment Yoga and Life The Movies Films in Focus Self Six Paper Cuts (NY Times blog) Reimagine Guernica Islands Via Distinction Persimmon Appellation Los Angeles California Westways Santa Barbara Santa Fean Portland Chapman News New York Santa Barbara Independent Iowa Review Partisan Review American Scholar Asian American Literary Review Los Angeles Review of Books Radio Silence P.E.N. America magazine Anastomas
United Kingdom
Granta
The Times
The Financial Times
The Daily Telegraph
The Guardian
The Observer
The Sunday Telegraph
The Sunday Times
The Mail on Sunday
The Times Literary Supplement
The Times Higher Education Supplement
The Spectator
Prospect
Standpoint
The Literary Review
The London Magazine
BBC Travel
Satori
Faune
Commonwealth Writers.com
Icarus
Isis
The Yoke
Boat
Icarus
AskMen.com
Conde Nast Traveller
Resurgence
Europe
Internazionale
International Herald Tribune
L’Espresso
The Focus (Switzerland)
Conde Nast Traveller Italia
Ode
Focus
Copy
Lettre International
Lettre (Romania)
Lettre (Denmark)Lettera Internazionale
Trans-Europenne
Madame Figaro
Geo
Merian
Frankfurt Allgemeine Zeitung
Du
Berliner Zeitung
German GQ
Kultur Auschausch
Traveler Spain
Granta Portgual
Holland Herald
Open Skies (Dubai)
Conde Nast Traveller Hellas
Respekta
Cairo Review of Global Affairs
Vogue Turkey
212
Canada
Toronto Globe and Mail
Canadian Geographic
Brick
The Walrus
Adbusters
Shambhala Sun
Lion’s Roar
Mindful
Saturday Night
Nuance
Ascent
En Route
India
India Today
Outlook
Vogue India
Elle India
Conde Nast Traveller India
The Statesman
The Times of India
First City
Tehelka
India Today Travel
Oberoi Magazine
Outlook Traveller
Mint
The Punch
Life/Positive
Asia
Kyoto Journal
Granta (Japan)
Kansai Time Out
Japan Times
Kyoto Univeristy Gangsters magazine
Far Eastern Economic Review
Cairo Review
Asian Literary Review
Asian Review of Books
Discovery
Dim Sum
Wissen (China)
DestinAsian
Straits Times
Self China
Common Wealth Parenting
Travel and Leisure Southeast Asia
Silver Kris
Oceania
The Australian
The Age
Sydney Morning Herald
Sport
Australia Style
Australia Gourmet Traveller
The Monthly
Latin America
El Malpensante
Letras Libres
Indigo
Glamour Mexico
Australia/New Zealand
Sport
Australia Style
The Age
Australia Gourmet Traveller
Sydney Morning Herald
The Monthly
Tropicsurf
South America
El Malpensante
Letras Libres
Indigo
Glamour Mexico
Sietes Tigres
Africa
Middle East
Conde Nast Traveller Middle East
Books Introduced
Internazionale International Herald Tribune L’Espresso Somerset Maugham, The Skeptical Romancer (editor/writer of introduction) Graham Greene, The Complete Stories Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient Natsume Soseki, The Gate Christopher Isherwood, The Condor and the Crows R.K. Narayan, A Tiger for Malgudi and The Man-Eater of Malgudi R.K. Narayan, The Guide R.K. Narayan, The Vendor of Sweets R.K. Narayan, Waiting for the Mahatma Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance Donald Richie, The Inland Sea Frederick Prokosh, The Asiatics Huston Smith, Tales of Wonder Nicolas Rothwell, Wings of the Kite-Hawk Arto Paasilinna, The Year of the Hare Lawrence Weschler, A Wanderer in the Perfect City Ronald Wright, Time Among the Maya Brother Paul Quenon, In Praise of the Useless Life Gopi Kallayil, The Internet to the Inner-Net Donald George, The Way of Wanderlust Harry Hervey, Congai Harry Hervey, King Cobra J.D. Brown, The Sudden Disappearance of Japan Arthur Braverman, Warrior of Zen Paul Relis, Out of the Wasteland Kathryn Fallon, Zen and the Rescue Dog Natsuki Izekawa, Mariko/Mariquita Disappearing Destinations The Curious Atlas of Improbable Nations My California Wanderlust: The Salon Book of Travel Traveling Souls: Contemporary Pilgrimage Stories The Best American Travel Writing 2004 The Best Spiritual Writing 2010
The Best Travel Writing 2011 100 Journeys of the Spirit Remote Digital Geishas and Talking Frogs: The Best 21st Century Fiction from Japan The Bollingen Journey (photographs by Isamu Noguchi) Illumination (photographs by Lynn Davis) Violet Isle (photographs by Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb) Displaced (photographs by Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange and others) Horizons (photographs by Sze Tsung Leong) Passage to Vietnam (photographs by Rick Smolan and others) Mongolia (photographs by Frederic Lagrange) Cuba Hasta Siempre (photographs by Magdalena Sole) The Book of Santa Barbara (photographs by Macduff Everton) Ping Pong (with Geoff Dyer, photographs by Alec Soth) Masks (photographs by Chris Ranier) Face to Face (photographs by Alison Wright) Bhutan (photographs by Basil Pao) The Crossing, The Crossing (photographs by Marissa Roth) Model City : Pyongyang, by Cristiano Bianci and Kristina Drapic with Koryo Studio Perspectives (photographs by David Burdeny) Living Faith (photographs by Dinesh Khanna) Japan: A Reverence for Beauty (photographs by Gil Garcetti) Home in the City (photographs by Sooni Taraporevala) Cuba: This Moment, Exactly So (photographs by Lorne Resnick). Himalayan Odyssey (photographs by David Samuel Robbins) Republic of Humanity (photographs by David Taggart) The Book (photographs by Julius Friedman) Out the Window (LAX), (photographs by Zoe Crosher) World Heritage Japan (photographs by John Lander) Cuba: Singing with Bright Tears (photographs by Virginia C. Beahan) Within Without (photographs by Briana Blasko) Mono No Aware (photographs by Brett Boardman) Buddha: The Living Way (photographs by deForest W. Trimingham) Lost Worlds (photographs by Arthur Rooker) The Deepak Puri Collection (Photographs by James Nachtwey, Sebastiao Salgado, Raghu Rai, John Stanmeyer and many others). Tibet (photographs by Estelle Kermer)
Liner Notes
The Essential Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen 2008-2010 program The Leonard Cohen Complete Collection Awakening Beyond
I’m Your Man (reissued) Various Positions (reissued) New Skin for the Old Ceremony (reissued)
DVD Essays
I’m Your Man (reissued) Various Positions (reissued) New Skin for the Old Ceremony (reissued)
Past Public Appearances
In recent years, Pico Iyer has spoken at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, West Point, Stanford, Wellesley, the University of Toronto and many other institutions of higher learning. He has given four talks for TED, including the closing talk at the first TED Summit, in 2016, and the opening talk at the second TED Summit, in 2019, and his talks for TED have received more than ten million views so far. He has also addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos, the World Government Forum in Dubai, Coca-Cola, Google, SAP, Fox Television, The Association of American Museums, the World Monuments Fund and other associations across North America and the world. Recent feature-length programs with him can be found on Oprah Winfrey’s Super Soul Sunday, Krista Tippett’s On Being, Larry King’s show, NHK World and on CNN. He is the host of the “Speaking with Pico” series of onstage conversations at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and has conducted onstage interviews, there and elsewhere, with the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, President Mary Robinson of Ireland, Martin Scorsese, Phillip Glass, Meredith Monk, Zadie Smith, Werner Herzog, Salman Rushdie, Amy Tan, George Saunders, Evan Williams, Annie Leibovitz, Matthieu Ricard, Maria Popova, BJ Miller and others in many fields.
Translations
VARIOUS IYER BOOKS HAVE BEEN BOUGHT FOR TRANSLATION INTO: French, German, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Polish, Greek, Ukrainian, Czech, Slovakian, Croatian, Hungarian, Hebrew, Russian, Turkish, Romanian, Bahasa Indonesia, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and Mandarin. Articles have appeared in Hindi, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Flemish and many more. 
In recent years, Pico Iyer has spoken at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Columbia, West Point, Stanford, Wellesley, Mount Holyoke, the University of Toronto and many, many other institutions of higher learning, and has addressed such groups as The World Economic Forum in Davos, The World Government Summit, The Association of American Museums,, Dance/USA, the World Monuments Fund, SAP Labs, Coca-Cola, Google, Citigroup, Fox Television and Virtuoso, as well as giving three talks for TED (one of them to close the TED Summit in 2016) and telling a story for The Moth. He has appeared regularly at the New York Public Library, the 92nd Street Y, the Los Angeles Central Library, the Asia Society (in many of its centers), the Los Angeles County Museum, the Guggenheim, the National Geographic Society, the Rubin Museum and many others. He has also appeared at literary festivals in Bogota, Jamaica, Edinburgh, Ireland, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Macao, Singapore, Jaipur, Sri Lanka, Bali, New Zealand, and across the United States, Australia and Canada; and he has conducted onstage conversations with the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, President Mary Robinson of Ireland, Martin Scorsese, Sebastiao Salgado, Werner Herzog, Salman Rushdie, Takashi Murakami, Krista Tippett, Matthieu Ricard, Elizabeth Gilbert, Chris Anderson (head of TED), Meredith Monk, Zadie Smith, Evan Williams, Maria Popova and innumerable others. If you want to learn more about his work and life, you can see the program-length features on him broadcast on PBS, CNN, the Oprah Winfrey Network and NHK World, among others.
Please contact the following if you need to get in touch:
For Media Interviews
Bianca FloresPenguin Random House
For Speaking Engagements
Miriam FeuerleLyceum Agency
For Foreign Rights
Cullen StanleyJanklow & Nesbit Associates
For Film Rights
For Other Queries
Iyer Office
And let me add here that I owe huge and heartfelt thanks to the astonishing Jeff Cheong and his team at DDB in Singapore and to David Tang and the other terrifically generous friends there who first suggested that some set of journeys be made up in digital form – and then brought them to life on-screen with a sense of style, of fun, of imagination and vitality that humbled me. Yeo Wee Lee, Francis Chong, Rosslyn Chay, and Lim Si Ping have brought me vividly into the present moment and taught me, in inspiring ways, where our new world is going.
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