{"podcast":{"title":"3 Books With Neil Pasricha","slug":"3-books-with-neil-pasricha-230850","podcast_index_feed_id":230850,"rss_url":"https://rss.libsyn.com/shows/117111/destinations/671382.xml","website_url":"http://www.3books.co","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/e/9/e/9/e9e9657d59ec593416c3140a3186d450/3Books_Logo_2022.jpg","author":"Neil Pasricha","episode_count":216,"summary":"3 Books is a completely insane and totally epic 22-year-long quest to uncover and discuss the 1000 most formative books in the world. Each chapter discusses the 3 most formative books of one of the world's most inspiring people. Sample guests include: Brené Brown, David Sedaris, Malcolm Gladwell, Roxane Gay, Cheryl Strayed, Rich Roll, Soyoung the Variety Store Owner, Derek the Hype Man, Kevin the Bookseller, Shirley The Nurse, Vishwas the Uber Driver, Angie Thomas, David Mitchell, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, Mark Manson, Seth Godin, Judy Blume, and Quentin Tarantino. 3 Books is published on the lunar calendar with each of the 333 chapters dropped on the exact minute of every single full moon all the way up to 10:37 PM EST on April 26, 2040. 3 Books is an Apple \"Best Of\" award-winning show and is 100% non-profit with no ads, no sponsors, no commercials, and no interruptions. 3 Books has 3 clubs including the End of the Podcast Club, the Cover to Cover Club, and the Secret Club, which operates entirely through the mail and is only accessible by calling 1-833-READ-A-LOT. Each chapter is hosted live and in-person at the guest's preferred location by Neil Pasricha, New York Times bes…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-30T04:19:17.860573+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/3-books-with-neil-pasricha-230850"},"episode":{"title":"Chapter 161: Yann Martel on rural revelations and reliable writing routines","slug":"chapter-161-yann-martel-on-rural-revelations-and-reliable-writing-routines","published_at":"2026-05-31T08:45:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/3-books-with-neil-pasricha-230850/chapter-161-yann-martel-on-rural-revelations-and-reliable-writing-routines","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/3-books-with-neil-pasricha-230850","url":"https://threebooks.libsyn.com/chapter-161-yann-martel-on-rural-revelations-and-reliable-writing-routines","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/clean/secure/threebooks/3_Books_-_Yann_Martel_-_Mix03NJAUDIO_-_05252026.mp3?dest-id=671382","summary":"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've been hoping to have on our show for years. Join me in welcoming the Booker Prize–winning novelist, deeply philosophical storyteller, and one of Canada's most distinctive literary voices ... Mr. Yann Martel! Yann is best known for ' Life of Pi' , the global phenomenon that won The Booker Prize in 2002 , sold over 15 million copies worldwide, and was later adapted into an Academy Award–winning film . Born in Salamanca, Spain in 1963, Yann spent his childhood in Spain, Portugal, Alaska, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Canada. Yann's work is deeply shaped by a pulsing curiosity, philosophy, and research. He journeyed through India while developing 'Life of Pi', visited Holocaust memorial sites while writing ' Beatrice and Virgil ', and even launched a \"guerilla book club\" called ' 101 Letters to a Prime Minister ', where he mailed books to former Prime Minister Stephen Harper every two weeks for four years. Yann's newest novel, ' Son of Nobody ', 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's 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's flip the page to Chapter 161 now...","meta_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 autho…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4976,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/3-books-with-neil-pasricha-230850/episodes/chapter-161-yann-martel-on-rural-revelations-and-reliable-writing-routines/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/3-books-with-neil-pasricha-230850/chapter-161-yann-martel-on-rural-revelations-and-reliable-writing-routines.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}