Conversations with Authors: Husband Meets Wife. Meet husband and wife , Shogo Oketani, author of J-Boys : Kazuo’s World : Tokyo 1965, and Leza Lowitz author of a new poetry collection, Yoga Heart, Lines on the Six Perfections. Leza is currently fiction editor for Kyoto Journal. She’s the award winning author editor of over 15 book on Japan and owner of Sun and Moon Yoga Studio.
Shogo Oketani’s bittersweet novel is a deft portrait of a year in a boy’s life in a land and time far away filled with universal concerns about fitting in, escaping the past and growing up. This engaging duo will talk candidly about the writing life, the expat experience, working and playing in Tokyo, running a yoga studio and of course their books!
