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Writer Pico Iyer And 'Autumn Light'

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Writer Pico Iyer

Writer Pico Iyer has lived in Japan for 32 years — on a tourist visa. His new book Autumn Light explores life as an outsider in a country he very much feels is home, exploring along the way what home is and how we can communicate by not speaking at all. 

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Writer Pico Iyer has lived in Japan for 32 years — on a tourist visa. Although he’s married to a Japanese woman and has two Japanese children, he says he moved to Japan, in part, to learn to speak silence, not the native language. His new book, Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells, [Indie bookstores|Amazon] explores life as an outsider in a country he very much feels is home, exploring along the way what home is and how we can communicate by not speaking at all.

Iyer writes regularly for the New York TimesHarpersThe New York Review of Books, the Los Angels Times and others. He's the author of many books, including The Lady and the MonkThe Man Within My Head and The Open Road

Watch Pico Iyer's most recent TED Talk, "What ping-pong taught me about life," here

Doug Fabrizio has been reporting for KUER News since 1987, and became News Director in 1993. In 2001, he became host and executive producer of KUER's RadioWest, a one hour conversation/call-in show on KUER 90.1 in Salt Lake City. He has gained a reputation for his thoughtful style. He has interviewed everyone from Isabel Allende to the Dalai Lama, and from Madeleine Albright to Desmond Tutu. His interview skills landed him a spot as a guest host of the national NPR program, "Talk of the Nation." He has won numerous awards for his reporting and for his work with RadioWest and KUED's Utah NOW from such organizations as the Society of Professional Journalists, the Utah Broadcasters Association, the Public Radio News Directors Association and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.