Salman Rushdie is finally planning on writing about the decade he spent under a fatwa of death issued by Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini. The fatwa was issued because Rushdie wrote The Satanic Verses. "It's my story, and at some point, it does need to be told. That point is getting closer, I think," he told reporters at Emory University in Atlanta, where an exhibition of his personal corres...

Sadly, we all remember the death warrant on Salman Rushdie but next month a fatwa against terrorism will be delivered Following the Salman Rushdie affair, the word fatwa became commonplace in our vernacular – it, lamentably, became associated with death, killing, and censorship. But to most Muslims, the word fatwa is not a political term, but an unbinding religious edict issued by erudite sc...

Salman Rushdie will write a book about his years in hiding. Cover your walls with books. Zach Galifianakis interviews John Wray, or is it the other way around? What is your city reading? Aleksandar Hemon...

Story of his experience of the fatwa 'needs to be told' says author, as his archive goes on display in America Salman Rushdie is planning to write a book about the decade he spent in hiding after Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against him. "It's my story, and at some point, it does need to be told. That point is getting closer, I think," he told reporters at Emory ...

       As Katie Leslie reports in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Salman Rushdie's life and work on display at Emory, as: The Salman Rushdie Archive opens Friday at Emory's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library and gives the public an upclose view of his life and career. On display are e-mails and written correspondence from the 1970s through 20...

I realized the other day that I didn’t have any fiction on the go. Poetry, a biography, a book of essays, but no fiction. This had to be corrected immediately! My Bookman has been urging me to read Salman Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories since he read it about a year ago. Because

When Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against Salman Rushdie in 1989, he didn't want only the author of The Satanic Verses killed – he pronounced that: "All those involved in its publication who were aware of its contents are sentenced to death." Even this wasn't cause enough for the then Conservative government to denounce the fatwa. Instead, from Geoffrey Howe to William Waldegr...

Anyone picking up this collection of essays might reasonably expect extensive reflection on the events that pushed Rushdie into the headlines. Instead, much of the contents seem fusty and oddly irrelevant.

       As, for example, reported by Laura Diamond in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Emory to open Salman Rushdie archive, as: Emory University will open to the public next month the archive of Salman Rushdie, the celebrated British Indian author who is considered a world literature master.        As noted at the official site...

On Bastille Day in July, author Matt Stewart published his entire novel, "The French Revolution," on Twitter in a burst of 3,700 tweets. He later landed a book deal with Soft Skull. At a book party, Salman Rushdie (pictured, via) told GalleyCat about his dinner with Thomas Pynchon. Amazon made headlines when they remotely deleted copies of books on Kindle e-readers. Finally, Nancy Drew reader and ...