Jérôme Sueur’s “Natural History of Silence” and Pico Iyer’s “Aflame” explore the quiet (and the sounds) that sustain us ...

Learning from Silence,” a memoir about losing his family's Santa Barbara home and everything he owned in a 1990 wildfire.

Violinist Vijay Gupta, right, introduces Pico Iyer, the bestselling author of "The Art of Stillness," during a presentation ...

Pico Iyer, the bestselling author of "The Art of Stillness," talks about his new book "Aflame: Learning from Silence" at ...

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

Now intimately familiar with a wildfire’s destructive powers, many who came to hear Iyer speak clutched his book with a fiery orange cover titled “Aflame: Learning from Silence.” During his ...

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

Pico Iyer, in Aflame, reflects on solitude, gratitude, the necessity of silence, and interconnectedness, promoting a compassionate approach to life. Aflame, Learning From Silence, the newest book ...