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

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

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.” ...

Writer Pico Iyer's eerily timed memoir ... and then really reducing my next eight years of writing — my next three books were all in handwritten notes — to ash," Iyer says.

(RNS) — Pico Iyer is no stranger to the disaster now visiting residents of Los Angeles. In 1990, a wildfire burned down his ...

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

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 ...

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