As the world has come to a halt and many of us are confined to our homes, we featured a conversation with Pico Iyer, a British-born, Japan-based essayist, novelist, and author of "The Art of Stillness," among many other books, about the monastic writer's life, the travels of the mind, his friendship with the Dalai Lama and the late Leonard Cohen, and the gift of silence.

We decided to make this Living Room Session recording publicly available.