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Salman Rushdie
The heavy price of an unpopular book.
Author Salman Rushdie's 1988 novelThe Satanic Verses, that earned him not accolades, but I death sentence, pronounced by Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini Rushdie spent the next several years essentially in hiding, but gradually re-emerged in public, and by 2002 was again going on author tours.
In this 2002 interview Rushdie reflects on his exile, his literature, and his sense of humor.
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The heavy price of an unpopular book.
Author Salman Rushdie's 1988 novelThe Satanic Verses, that earned him not accolades, but I death sentence, pronounced by Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini Rushdie spent the next several years essentially in hiding, but gradually re-emerged in public, and by 2002 was again going on author tours.
In this 2002 interview Rushdie reflects on his exile, his literature, and his sense of humor.
https://amzn.to/3s10Sez
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Get Step Across This Line: by Salman Rushdie
You may also enjoy my interviews with
http://heardeverything.com/2023/03/17/jodi-picoult/
" rel="noopener noreferrer">
Jodi Picoult
and
http://heardeverything.com/2022/03/02/art-spiegelman/
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Art Spiegelman
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subscribe to Now I've Heard Everything on Spotify, Apple Podcasts. or wherever you listen to podcasts.
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