Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, as well as new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, ...

In Aflame (Riverhead, Jan.), essayist Pico Iyer draws from his visits to a Catholic hermitage to explore the value of silence in an increasingly noisy world. What was the most unexpected part of being ...

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, ...

Author Pico Iyer has traveled the world, but he finds his greatest escape in a monastery a few hours from his childhood home. In this extended interview, he shares how he finds so much peace in ...