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A Virtual Evening with Pico Iyer and Michael Shapiro
GET TICKETS HERE Books & Books, Harvard Bookstore , Literati Bookstore and Miami Book Fair are excited to present an evening with author Pico Iyer, for his latest book Aflame: Learning from Silence** (Riverhead Books, $30)**! Michael Shapiro, author of A Sense of Place, will be in conversation.
Please purchase a ticket before January 30th to gain access to the event. An email with the event link will be sent the day of the event to all attendees.
PLEASE NOTE: This ticket purchase is NON-REFUNDABLE. If you have any questions, please contact us at stephanie@booksandbooks.com.
*While supplies last.
About the Book:
From the bestselling author of The Art of Stillness, a revelatory exploration of the abiding clarity and calm to be found in quiet retreat
Pico Iyer has made more than one hundred retreats over the past three decades to a small Benedictine hermitage high above the sea in Big Sur, California. He’s not a Christian—or a member of any religious group—but his life has been transformed by these periods of time spent in silence. That silence reminds him of what is essential and awakens a joy that nothing can efface. It’s not just freedom from distraction and noise and rush: it’s a reminder of some deeper truths he misplaced along the way.
In Aflame, Iyer connects with inner stillness and joy in his many seasons at the monastery, even as his life is going through constant change: a house burns down, a parent dies, a daughter is diagnosed with cancer. He shares the revelations he experiences, alongside wisdom from other nonmonastics who have learned from adversity and inwardness. And most profoundly, he shows how solitude can be a training in community and companionship. In so doing, he offers a unique outsider’s view of monastic life—and of a group of selfless souls who have dedicated their days to ensuring there’s a space for quiet and recollection that’s open to us all.
Radiant, intimate, and gripping, Aflame offers ageless counsel about the power of silence and what it can teach us about how to live, how to love, and, ultimately, how to die.
About the Author:
Pico Iyer is the author of fifteen books, translated into twenty-three languages, and has been a constant contributor for more than thirty years to Time, The New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, and more than 250 other periodicals worldwide. His four recent talks for TED have received more than eleven million views. http://www.picoiyerjourneys.com
About the Moderator:
Michael Shapiro is the author of A Sense of Place — a book of conversations about journeys, writing and life — with the world’s leading travel writers, including Pico Iyer, Frances Mayes, Paul Theroux, Jan Morris and Peter Matthiessen. He writes about travel, music and the environment for National Geographic, Sierra, AFAR and other publications. In mid-2022, Shapiro was awarded a grant from U.C. Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center to examine how travel makes us more open-minded and humble. His most recent book is The Creative Spark (Solas House, 2019), which profiles 32 creative superstars, including Amy Tan, Smokey Robinson and Barbara Kingsolver.
Ticket Guidelines:
- U.S. ADMISSION WITH BOOK (Includes book + U.S shipping): The purchase of this ticket admits (1) one person into the virtual event and includes (1) one copy of AFLAME (Riverhead Books, $30 + tax and fee). A fee of $6 is included for U.S. domestic shipping of the book.
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