Pico Iyer

The Asia Society of Washington, D.C. is sponsoring a discussion with Pico Iyer about his most recent book. The event begins at Enology Wine Bar (3238 Wisconsin Ave. NW) for a reception with the author, followed at 7 p.m. with a lecture and book signing at Sidwell Friends School, Kogod Art Center, 3825 ... (more)Wisconsin Ave. NW. There is an admission price of $25 (nonmembers) for the reception, though the lecture at 7 p.m. is free. To RSVP, visit www.asiasociety.org/events/

Price: $20 to $30. Contact Info: 713-439-0265.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is very happy to present Pico Iyer as he reads, discusses and signs the paperback release of The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama.About the Author:
Pico Iyer is the author of several books about cultures converging, including Video Night in ... (more)Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk, The Global Soul, and, most recently, Abandon. His articles appear often in such magazines as Harper’s, Time, and the New York Review of Books. He lives in suburban Japan. About the Book:
One of the most acclaimed and perceptive observers of globalism and Buddhism now gives us the first serious consideration — for Buddhist and non-Buddhist alike — of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama’s work and ideas as a politician, scientist, and philosopher. Moving from Dharamsala, India — the seat of the Tibetan government-in-exile — to Lhasa, Tibet, to venues in the West, where the Dalai Lama’s pragmatism, rigor, and scholarship are sometimes lost on an audience yearning for mystical visions, The Open Road illuminates the hidden life, the transforming ideas, and the daily challenges of a global icon.

Pico Iyer, a part-time Santa Barbara resident, describes himself as a “global village on two legs.” Named one of 100 “writers who could change your life” by Utne Reader, Iyer is an acclaimed and perceptive observer of Asia and Buddhism and the author of several books including Sun After Dark, ... (more)Abandon, and The Global Soul. Iyer’s most recent book The Open Road reflects on his revered friend, the Dalai Lama’s ideas and work as a religious leader, politician, scientist, and philosopher.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

General public $10.00 / UCSB Students $8.00

Rushdie will discuss his work with esteemed author Pico Iyer (The Global Soul).

General public $25.00 / UCSB Students $15.00

Pico Iyer is the author of six works of nonfiction and two novels. He has covered the Tibetan question for Time, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and many other publications for more than twenty years.

The author discusses and signs his book in an event co-sponsored by the Chapters Literary Arts Center. (Book World, The Washington PosT)

Location: Auditorium

In his latest book, The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Pico Iyer gives us the first serious consideration of the Dalai Lama’s ideas and work as a politician, scientist, and philosopher. Iyer, one of the most acclaimed observers of Asia and Buddhism ... (more)and a frequent contributor to Harper’s Magazine, Time, and The New York Review of Books, has been engaged in conversation with the Dalai Lama for the last three decades. The Open Road illuminates the hidden life and the daily challenges of a global icon.

Harvard Book Store, as part of Harvard Square Business Association's April 12th Bookish Ball festivities, honoring Harvard Square's bookstores, is pleased to present PICO IYER for a discussion of his new, unprecedented profile of the Dalai Lama.

"This is a brilliant pairing of writer and subject. ... (more)Iyer has known the Dalai Lama, spiritual and political leader of Tibet, for more than 30 years, thanks to a long-ago connection between the writer's father, an Oxford don born in India, and a young Dalai Lama. And so the acute global observer Iyer, a travel writer, essayist and novelist, has long followed the fortunes of the astute globalist Tibetan Buddhist, who travels the world but can never go home to his Chinese-occupied country.

"This is not a biography but an extended journalistic analysis of someone deep enough for several lifetimes, as Tibetan Buddhists believe. Iyer organizes his observations by smart descriptions of aspects of the Dalai Lama's work and character: icon, monk, philosopher, politician. This allows him to plumb different sides of His Holiness, whom he demythologizes even as he expresses a clear-eyed respect for the leader's achievements." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Bookish Ball activities are free and open to the public throughout Harvard Square on April 12. Please visit the Harvard Square Business Association website, http://harvardsquare.com, for more details.

"In his new book, The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Pico Iyer gives us the first serious consideration of this worldwide leader’s work and ideas as a politician, scientist, and philosopher. Having been engaged in conversation with the Dalai Lama for the last three decades, ... (more)Iyer captures the paradoxes of the Dalai Lama’s position: though he has brought the ideas of Tibet to world attention, Tibet itself is being remade as a Chinese province; though he was born in one of the remotest, least developed places on earth, he has become a champion of globalism and technology. Iyer illuminates the hidden life, the transforming ideas, and the daily challenges of this global icon." $15 general admission and $10 library donors, seniors and students with valid identification (Event held in the Celeste Bartos Forum