{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Chapter 161: Yann Martel on rural revelations and reliable writing routines","description":"Happy blue moon, everyone!   Yes, it is indeed the second full moon of the month which brings us a second May chapter of 3 Books.   This one features an author I\u2019ve been hoping to have on our show for years.    Join me in welcoming the Booker Prize\u2013winning novelist, deeply philosophical storyteller, and one of Canada\u2019s most distinctive literary voices ... Mr. Yann Martel!    Yann is best known for \u2018Life of Pi\u2019, the global phenomenon that won The Booker Prize in 2002, sold over 15 million copies worldwide, and was later adapted into an Academy Award\u2013winning film.   Born in Salamanca, Spain in 1963, Yann spent his childhood in Spain, Portugal, Alaska, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Canada.    Yann\u2019s work is deeply shaped by a pulsing curiosity, philosophy, and research. He journeyed through India while developing \u2018Life of Pi\u2019, visited Holocaust memorial sites while writing \u2018Beatrice and Virgil\u2019, and even launched a "guerilla book club" called \u2018101 Letters to a Prime Minister\u2019, where he mailed books to former Prime Minister Stephen Harper every two weeks for four years.    Yann's newest novel, \u2018Son of Nobody\u2019, is a (new!) ancient retelling of the Trojan War told through the modern lens of a Canadian researcher who discovers this poem while exploring themes of homesickness, regret, ambition, love, and grief.   Tune in as we discuss Yann\u2019s writing routines, the importance of stories, AI in the world of publishing, racism in Australia, art as a co-creation between writer and reader, the beauty of the prairies, and of course, Yann Martel's most formative books...    Let\u2019s flip the page to Chapter 161 now... ","author_name":"3 Books With Neil Pasricha","author_url":"http:\/\/www.3books.co","html":"