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Does Salman Rushdie Deserve A Nobel Prize?

Anis Shivani | Posted 12.03.2011

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Anis Shivani

I don't expect for a moment for this to happen, but I believe no other writer on the face of the earth comes as close to deserving the next Nobel award for literature as Salman Rushdie.

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No Time?

The Guardian | John Crace | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lolita. Light of my life. Lo. Li. Ta Very Much. If you wonder where my peculiar interests came from, I should have to say it started when I was 13 wit...

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Sir Salman Rushdie on the So-Called-Mosque Debate: "This Stuff Is Stupid"

Michael Ames | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Ames

"I am not a fan of burning books, and I have some experience in this," he said. "We cannot burn books, no matter how much you dislike the book. I would not, for instance, burn the books of Dan Brown."

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Salman Rushdie Archive Opens At Emory University This Week

AP | DORIE TURNER | Posted 05.25.2011

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ATLANTA — Novelist Salman Rushdie said Tuesday he plans to write a book about his decade in hiding under a death threat from the Iranian governm...

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12 Months of Great Reads

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Natural, The Fixer, Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Reservation Blues, Remains of the Day, Reading Groups, Bernard Malamud, One Flew Over a Cuckoo's Nest, Blindness, Sherman Alexie, Willa Cather, Salman Rushdie, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jose Saramago, Ken Kesey, Pioneers, Midnight's Children, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Irwin Shaw, Christmas Memory, Book Groups, Of Human Bondage, Girls in Their Dresses, Edith Wharton, Kenneth C. Davis, Other Rooms, O, Sometimes a Great Notion, James Joyce, Killer Angels, Michael Shaara, Don't Know Much About Literature, Truman Capote, Alice Walker, Books, Age of Innocence, Color Purple, Classic Literature, Other Voices, Dubliners, Books News
Kenneth C. Davis

Here are my twelve: Each book celebrates the birth month of an author, a holiday or some other event connected to that month.

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Stephen King Picks 10 Books Of 2009

EW | Stephen King | Posted 05.25.2011

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Take it from your Uncle Stevie -- book lovers on your shopping list will thank you for the gift of any of these rockin' reads....

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A Fuller and More Personal Response to Dorothy Rabinowitz's Attack on Me in the Wall Street Journal

Deepak Chopra | Posted 05.25.2011

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Deepak Chopra

To trivialize my views on a topic as vast of of terrorism with "Deepak Blames America," as Ms. Rabinowitz has done, not only suggests how abysmally uninformed she is, but also speaks to the ever-sinking journalistic standards of her newspaper.

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