X Marks the Spot

Yann Martel, who wrote Life of Pi (and Self, which is actually, in my mind, better than Life of Pi), which won him the pretigious Man Booker Prize, has started an interesting website.

He plans to send Stephen Harper one book every two weeks.

He hopes this will help Harper reconsider his decision to cut $12 million from External Affairs for funding for promotion of Canadian artists in foreign countries.

It's really quite an interesting way to go about it.

And even if the Prime Minister doesn't read the books Martel suggests, perhaps the rest of us should.

The first book is Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilych.

Here's the website: http://www.whatisstephenharperreading.ca/.