How a Wildfire Sent Pico Iyer in Search of Silence
Episode 42 min 56s

How a Wildfire Sent Pico Iyer in Search of Silence

Decades ago, after he lost in home in a California wildfire, the travel writer and essayist Pico Iyer started to go to a small monastery in Big Sur in search of solitude. On this week's episode, he discusses those retreats, which he writes about in his new book "Aflame: Learning from Silence."

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