Yann Martel, reading from his new novel Beatrice and Virgil at Third Place books in Lake Forest Park on April 18, 2010.
Yann Martel's Life of Pi is one of the great novel's of the 21st Century so far, and to get the opportunity to hear him read from his new work was something I looked forward to for several weeks.
Martel is an excellent reader, not as easy as it sounds, and his Q & A was interesting and thoughtful. His disclosure that he recently received a note from President Obama about Life of Pi was a real contrast to the responses he has got from his own Prime Minister in Canada about all of the books he keeps sending to Ottawa.
