This is a collection of early stories from Yann Martell, most famous for Life of Pi. If you look at his general output of writing, across thirty years, he hasn’t published all that much, but of course Life of Pi is a) a huge success, b) won the Booker Prize and became an Oscar winning movie, and c) is quite good. It also begins with Yann Martell the narrator of the book discussing his frustration with publishing and finding things to write about. This book […]

I am rereading this book for the first time in a long time, having first read it in college for fun. It’s still a very engaging novel that plays around with some fun ideas and also with the structure and truth in fiction. I am thinking of using it for an AP Literature class this fall, and I was thrilled to read the author’s introduction, which functions like the first chapter of a Vonnegut or Nabokov book. We quickly realize that the author in this […]