Podcast Episodes featuring Pico Iyer
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Pico Iyer on travel, impermanence, and what Japan can teach us about life
Deviate with Rolf Potts - - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 117 ratings“The boundaries of life are responsible for the beauty of life.” – Pico Iyer In this episode of Deviate, Rolf and Pico discuss the people we become when we travel (4:00); what led Pico to travel (10:00); travel in the age of technology (20:00); finding the remarkable in the unremarkable (32:00);...
Searching for Paradise with Pico Iyer
Tricycle Talks - January 11, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 251 ratingsFor 50 years, Pico Iyer has been traveling the globe, seeking out sacred sites from the hidden shrines of Iran to the funeral pyres of Varanasi. Iyer believes that travel can help us confront questions that we tend to avoid or bypass when we’re at home, forcing us out of our usual routines and br...
Pico Iyer
City Arts & Lectures - November 24, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 314 ratingsKnown to many as a travel writer, Pico Iyer is not so much a guide to foreign lands as he is a sage interpreter of our interior lives. His many books include Video Night in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk, and The Art of Stillness, a poetic investigation of the benefits of quiet conte...
Writer Pico Iyer And 'Autumn Light'
RadioWest - November 21, 2019 23:39 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 711 ratingsWriter Pico Iyer has lived in Japan for 32 years — on a tourist visa. His new book Autumn Light explores life as an outsider in a country he very much feels is home, exploring along the way what home is and how we can communicate by not speaking at all.
How TV Made Trump: Tom Carson, plus David Perry on Ilhan Omar and Pico Iyer on Japan
The Nation Podcasts - October 23, 2019 22:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 290 ratingsWe all know Trump got famous on TV with The Apprentice – but how many of us ever watched The Apprentice? Reality TV was a key force in making Trump president. Tom Carson talks about “Audience of One” by James Poniewozik. Tom, a longtime writer on pop culture and politics, won two National Mag...
What ping-pong taught me about life | Pico Iyer
TED Talks Daily - August 23, 2019 14:41 - ★★★★ - 9.8K ratingsGrowing up in England, Pico Iyer was taught that the point of a game was to win. Now, some 50 years later, he's realized that competition can be "more like an act of love." In this charming, subtly profound talk, he explores what regular games of ping-pong in his neighborhood in Japan ha...
What ping-pong taught me about life | Pico Iyer
TED Talks Daily (HD video) - August 23, 2019 14:41 - ★★★★ - 740 ratingsGrowing up in England, Pico Iyer was taught that the point of a game was to win. Now, some 50 years later, he's realized that competition can be "more like an act of love." In this charming, subtly profound talk, he explores what regular games of ping-pong in his neighborhood in Japan have reveal...
Cultivating Stillness, featuring Pico Iyer
Write-minded: Weekly Inspiration for Writers - June 17, 2019 13:30 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 372 ratingsIn this week’s episode, Brooke and Grant meander through the topic of stillness with Pico Iyer, “arguably the world’s greatest living travel writer,” according to Outside. In an “on-demand” world that demands productivity, especially from writers, Iyer suggests ways to steal little moments, even ...
At Home in Japan with Pico Iyer
Open Source with Christopher Lydon - May 24, 2019 01:50 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 1K ratingsPico Iyer once described himself as “a global village on two legs.” He’s the writing champion of cosmopolitan consciousness who lived awhile inside the Los Angeles airport just to feel the great stream of humanity, ... The post At Home in Japan with Pico Iyer appeared first on Open Source with...
Pico Iyer: Inside Japan as an Outsider
Tricycle Talks - April 29, 2019 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 251 ratingsAcclaimed travel and spirituality writer Pico Iyer has written two new books about his life in Japan, Autumn Light (Penguin, April 2019), and the forthcoming A Beginner’s Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations (Penguin, September 2019). Iyer views the books as complimentary: while Autumn L...
[Unedited] Pico Iyer with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett - November 29, 2018 19:46 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratingsAbsorption as a definition of happiness. “To bring that calm into the motion, the commotion of the world.” Traveling not in order to move around but in order to be moved. His friend Leonard Cohen. Stillness & silence as a recharging station for the soul. Pico Iyer is one of our most eloquent e...
Pico Iyer — The Urgency of Slowing Down
On Being with Krista Tippett - November 29, 2018 19:46 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratingsAbsorption as a definition of happiness. “To bring that calm into the motion, the commotion of the world.” Traveling not in order to move around but in order to be moved. His friend Leonard Cohen. Stillness & silence as a recharging station for the soul. Pico Iyer is one of our most eloquent e...
Mohsin Hamid & Pico Iyer
City Arts & Lectures - September 30, 2018 19:35 - 58 minutes ★★★★ - 314 ratingsWriters Mohsin Hamid and Pico Iyer talk about the space where art and politics converge.
Pico Iyer: The Art of Stillness
Oprah's Super Soul - September 26, 2018 05:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 27.5K ratingsBest-selling author and travel writer Pico Iyer discusses the benefits of bringing stillness into our lives. Pico, a lifelong traveler who has journeyed all over the world, from India to Ethiopia to Cuba to Kathmandu, realized our lives are crowded, chaotic and noisy. He says there has never bee...
The Power of Literature to Create a Better World: Closing Keynote with Pico Iyer
Bay Area Book Festival Podcast - June 23, 2018 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsDrawing upon his 32 years as a writer and his 44 years as a traveler, Iyer will close the festival with a keynote illuminating the power of literature to create a world beyond walls. Iyer will then be interviewed by renowned literary critic John Freeman.
Ep. 205 - Pico Iyer
Mindrolling with Raghu Markus - August 23, 2017 14:53 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsAuthor, Pico Iyer, visits the Mindrolling podcast for a conversation about inner exploration, Zen Buddhism, and the Dalai Lama. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Andrew McCarthy in conversation with Pico Iyer
Live Talks Los Angeles - August 02, 2017 20:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsAndrew McCarthy in conversation with Pico Iyer at Live Talks Los Angeles, April 5, 2017, discussing the writing life and his novel, "Just Fly Away." For more information on Live Talks Los Angeles -- upcoming events, videos and podcasts -- visit www.livetalksla.org and subscribe to this podcast.
Worst Job Interviews, Pico Iyer on Dalai Lama
Satellite Sisters - June 04, 2017 07:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsOn today's New To You show from June 2, 2008, Liz Dolan, Sheila Dolan and Julie Dolan interview Pico Iyer about his new book on the Dalai Llama and discuss Julie's list of worst job interview mistakes. Plus Lian joins at the end with an Ask The Satellite Sisters segment. We answer your personal q...
[Unedited] Krista Tippett with Pico Iyer
On Being with Krista Tippett - May 05, 2016 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratingsKrista Tippett is a journalist and host of On Being. She is the New York Times bestselling author of “Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living” and “Einstein’s God: Conversations About Science and the Human Spirit.” She won a Peabody Award and received the National Humanitie...
Weapons of Mass Distraction: Keeping Our Sanity and Balance in a High-Speed Displacing World with Pico Iyer -- Helen Edison Lecture Series
Journalism (Video) - July 07, 2014 21:00 - 57 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 ratingRecent technology has made our lives much brighter, longer, fuller and healthier than ever before; but how can we ensure that we're not drowning in information and still have offline lives as well? In an interview with UC San Diego’s Peter Gourevitch, essayist and novelist Pico Iyer draws upon 40...
Weapons of Mass Distraction: Keeping Our Sanity and Balance in a High-Speed Displacing World with Pico Iyer -- Helen Edison Lecture Series
Journalism (Audio) - July 07, 2014 21:00 - 57 minutesRecent technology has made our lives much brighter, longer, fuller and healthier than ever before; but how can we ensure that we're not drowning in information and still have offline lives as well? In an interview with UC San Diego’s Peter Gourevitch, essayist and novelist Pico Iyer draws upon 40...
S3E1: Buoyancy and Poignancy with Pico Iyer
Notebook on Cities and Culture - January 02, 2013 21:37 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 124 ratingsColin Marshall sits down in Nara, Japan's Nara Hotel with writer of place Pico Iyer, author of such books as Video Night in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk, The Global Soul, and most recently The Man Within My Head. They discuss the discovery that Japan looks exactly like Japan, and the "pierci...
S1E14: Fathers Chosen and Unchosen with Pico Iyer
Notebook on Cities and Culture - April 04, 2012 20:08 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 124 ratingsColin Marshall sits down in downtown Los Angeles with Pico Iyer, writer about place — both our dreams of it and its realities. They discuss his new book The Man Within My Head; how best to introduce Graham Greene's The Quiet American to new readers; how he started a book on being a pleasantly be...
The world dreamed but not judged: traveler and writer Pico Iyer
Notebook on Cities and Culture - August 10, 2011 15:08 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 124 ratingsColin Marshall talks to essayist, novelist, traveler, and "global soul" Pico Iyer. Since Video Night in Kathmandu, his journey through the rapidly changing Asia of the mid-1980s, Iyer has told us all about what it feels like and what it means to exist in and pass through places from Atlanta to K...
366: A 2008 Interview with Pico Iyer
Rick Kleffel:Narrative Species–The Agony Column - April 28, 2008 02:00 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsPico Iyer Takes to 'The Open Road'
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