Salman Rushdie

PEN World Voices: Kronos Quartet vs. A Trio of Scribes

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Tony Kushner, Marjane Satrapi, Kronos Quartet, Rula Jebreal, Julian Schnabel, Salman Rushdie, PEN World Voices Festival, Culture News

Veering toward the political, recordings announcing the dropping of the atomic bomb, and the gap between words and music became more pronounced.

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PHOTOS: Tribeca Film Festival Opening Party!

Posted 04.18.2012

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Vanity Fair hosted the opening party for the annual Tribeca Film Festival on Tuesday with some of the industry's biggest celebrities turning up for th...

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Salman Rushdie Announces Memoir About His Time In Hiding

Posted 04.12.2012

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Salman Rushdie has written a memoir based on the time he spent hiding while under a fatwa that sentenced him to death in 1989. His novel "The Sata...

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PHOTOS: Salman Rushdie, Ubiquitous Party Animal

Posted 03.28.2012

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The New York Times recently chronicled the surprising transformation of famed author Salman Rushdie, as he evolves from man-in-exile to something of a...

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LOOK: January Jones And Patti Smith At The Met's Manon Premiere

Posted 03.27.2012

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The Metropolitan Opera premiered their latest production, "Manon," starring Anna Netrebko with plenty of pretty faces and celebrities to help celeb...

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Alan Cumming Mashes Up Adele, Lady Gaga And Katy Perry

The Huffington Post | Gazelle Emami | Posted 03.22.2012

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Sporting plaid pants and a snug long-sleeved shirt, Alan Cumming serenaded a sea of stars Wednesday night for the Lunchbox Fund's cocktail-attire (loo...

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A View From Inside The Jaipur Literature Festival

Monisha Rajesh | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Lionel Shriver, Jaipur Literature Festival, Richard Dawkins, Salman Rushdie, Jaipur, Jaipur Literary Festival, Salman Rushdie Threats, Books News

Bigotry. Intolerance. Censorship. Not words that you would normally associate with a literature festival. Yet, over the last six days at the Jaipur Literature Festival, they've dominated panel discussions, been whispered during readings, and littered furious debates around tea stalls.

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Salman Rushdie Cancels Literary Festival Appearance Following Threats

The Huffington Post | Nausheen Husain | Posted 01.20.2012

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India's seventh annual Jaipur Literature Festival was embroiled in controversy even before its official kickoff on Friday, January 20. Salman Rushdie,...

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PHOTOS: Epic Literary Mustaches

| Posted 01.20.2012

Read More: Hemingway, Authors With Mustaches, Literary Mustaches, Author Mustaches, Salman Rushdie, Faulkner, Mustaches, Tolstoy, Books News

By Alison Nastasi for Flavorwire: Happy birthday to Gothic lit god Edgar Allan Poe, whose chilling tales have influenced innumerable artists of eve...

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Palaces, Camels, Salman, and Oprah: If It's January, It Must be the Jaipur Literature Festival

Victoria Lautman | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Literature, Jaipur, Oprah Winfrey, Lionel Shriver, Oprah, William Dalrymple, Annie Proulx, Tom Stoppard, Michael Ondaatje, Maharaja, Salman Rushdie, Jaipur Literary Festival, Umberto Eco, Chicago News

To describe the Jaipur Literature Festival as the rambunctious love-spawn of the mercantile-minded Frankfurt Book Fair and free-spirited Woodstock barely scratches the surface of this spectacle.

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Salman Rushdie Slams Facebook For Changing His Name

The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 11.14.2011

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Booker Prize-winning writer Salman Rushdie has taken to Twitter lambasting Facebook for changing the name on his personal profile. Rushdie, known t...

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St. Mark's Bookshop Will NOT Be Closing

HuffingtonPost.com | Christopher Mathias | Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: St. Marks Bookshop, Cooper Union, Ny News, Lorin Stein, New York News, Salman Rushdie, Scott Stringer, Rosie-Mendez, New York News

The St. Mark's Bookshop will stay open, after all. At a press conference outside the store Thursday morning, Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stri...

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Muslim Scholars Issue Fatwa Declaring No Conflict Between Islamic Law And U.S. Constitution

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 12.19.2011

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Islamic scholars tired of conservative charges that Muslims in the United States constitute a radical fifth column bent on subverting American values ...

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What Is The Booker Prize, And Why Should You Care?

Posted 12.16.2011

Read More: The Literature Prize, Yann Martel, The Booker Prize, Video, Thomas Keneally, Margaret Atwood, Man Booker Prize, The Man Booker Prize, Life of Pi, Salman Rushdie, Booker Prize, Books News

On Tuesday, the latest winner of The Man Booker Prize will be announced. It's one of the most important literary prizes in the English language - but ...

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Famous Writers Sign On To Support Occupy Wall Street

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrew Losowsky | Posted 12.14.2011

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Its statement is simple and stark. "We, the undersigned writers and all who will join us, support Occupy Wall Street and the Occupy Movement aroun...

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Muppets Hit The Street At Occupy Sesame Street

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Stampler | Posted 12.10.2011

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O is for... occupation? Occupy Wall Street has spread to more than 25 cities nationwide, and one of those is inhabited by a big yellow bird. Say he...

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Does Salman Rushdie Deserve A Nobel Prize?

Anis Shivani | Posted 12.03.2011

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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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11 Favorite Salman Rushdie Tweets

Madeleine Crum | Posted 11.22.2011

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After struggling to verify his account, Salman Rushdie made his grand entrance to the Twitterverse this week. Aside from revealing a new short story, ...

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From Rushdie Twitter-Fights to Facebook Breakups: Social Media Goes Toxic

Sandip Roy | Posted 11.23.2011

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The Internet has always been the arena of the virtual bully, a playground of casual cruelty, its anonymity allowing us to turn on our bile spigot at full force.

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You Bet It's Class Warfare

Andy Ostroy | Posted 11.19.2011

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The truth is, the rich have been waging war on the poor and middle class for decades now, and it's time the tide turns. Income inequality in the United States has never been more glaring.

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Encounters With Greatness: From Salman Rushdie to Versace

Stacie Gillian | Posted 11.02.2011

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Just recently I helped a phenomenal designer, Jessica Robinson, put together a birthday dinner party for another friend -- Booker Prize winner Salman ...

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Heard Any Good Books Lately?

DailyFinance | Alice Hines | Posted 11.01.2011

Read More: Ebook Sounds, Paul Cameron, Book Music, James Frey, Booktrack, Mark Cameron, John Psathas, Book Soundtrack, Salman Rushdie, Book Sounds, Ebooks, Soundtrack, Books News

This piece was first published on our sister site DailyFinance. By Alice Hines The book, that venerable handmaiden of Western thought, has had a...

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Writers Struggle To Out-Imagine 9/11

AP | By HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 10.18.2011

Read More: Jess Walter, Writers 9/11, Martin Amis, 9/11 Anniversary, 9/11, Charlotte's Web, Salman Rushdie, Philip Roth, Amy Waldman, Books News

NEW YORK -- Ten years later, and our imaginations are still catching up to Sept. 11, 2001. "I don't think art can `compete' with something like 9/11,...

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Yusuf Islam, Salman Rushdie And Censorship

Michael Gilmour | Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: Salman Rushdie Fatwa, Islam, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Bhagavad Gita, Islamophobia, Cat Stevens, Salman Rushdie, An Other Cup, Yusuf Islam Salman Rushdie, Religion and Politics, Satanic Verses Yusuf Islam, George Harrison Brainwashed, Religious Tolerance, Religion News

Free speech, open dialogue and respect for those who differ ought to be prized values in any society, and when absent, travesties like the horrific reactions to "The Satanic Verses" occur.

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"Kissing" Books Could Have Saved Borders

Gail Vida Hamburg | Posted 09.23.2011

Read More: Authors, Literature, Borders Bankruptcy, Borders Books, Writers, Importance of Reading, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Independent Bookstores, Publishers, Bookstores, Reading, Salman Rushdie, Books News

As men wearing suits analyze the death of Borders, it's become clear that none of them grew up kissing books. They blame book readers, digital books, Amazon, and the recession for the demise of the chain when they should be blaming the executives.

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