…with the inimitable Greg Havas, (old college friend) in which we talk about Jennifer Lawrence, Japanese toilets, Spandex and the Grateful Dead. Oh, and did I mention ninja? blog.paperbackswap.com

Suzanne Kamata: What is your latest book, Jet Black and the Ninja Wind, about? Leza Lowitz: I love Japan. But I got tired of reading about girls in kimonos trailing behind boys. Where were the female warriors? They were hidden. They were ninja. After Memoirs of A Geisha came out, we decided that we wanted to tell a story about a strong Asian heroine, …