5 days ago · PASADENA — On a quiet summer evening in June 1990, Pico Iyer sat in his family home in Santa Barbara, California, when suddenly, he was surrounded by walls of flames five stories high.

4 days ago · The timing is uncanny for Pico Iyer’s new book “Aflame: Learning from Silence,” a memoir about losing his family's Santa Barbara home and everything he owned in a 1990 wildfire. ... Iyer returned to Southern California to share how it transformed his life, nudging him toward what he now values — simplicity, silence, solitude and love. ...

4 days ago · On a quiet summer evening in June 1990, Pico Iyer sat in his family home in Santa Barbara, California, when suddenly, he was surrounded by walls of flames five stories high. Thirty-four years ...

1 day ago · PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — On a quiet summer evening in June 1990, Pico Iyer sat in his family home in Santa Barbara, California, when suddenly, he was surrounded by walls of flames five stories high. ... Iyer returned to Southern California to share how it transformed his life, nudging him toward what he now values — simplicity, silence ...

4 days ago · PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — On a quiet summer evening in June 1990, Pico Iyer sat in his family home in Santa Barbara, California, when suddenly, he was surrounded by walls of flames five stories high. Thirty-four years after that conflagration turned his life upside down, Iyer returned to Southern California to share how it transformed […]

PASADENA, Calif.: On a quiet summer evening in June 1990, Pico Iyer sat in his family home in Santa Barbara, California, when suddenly, he was surrounded by walls of flames five stories high.

Jan 15, 2025 · Southern California families who have lost everything the in recent wildfires are reckoning with what it means to start over. Writer Pico Iyer’s eerily timed memoir, Aflame: Learning from Silence , speaks to that experience.

Jan 15, 2025 · After a 1990 wildfire destroyed his home and possessions, Iyer started over. The loss led him to a Benedictine monastery, where he found comfort and compassion in solitude. His new memoir is Aflame.

Jan 18, 2025 · Though at the time it was one of the worst fires in California history, we had heroic firefighters to thank for the fact that almost everyone survived.

5 days ago · (RNS) — Pico Iyer is no stranger to the disaster now visiting residents of Los Angeles. In 1990, a wildfire burned down his family home in Southern California and everything inside.