If you have not read Rushdie, please do so. I keep plugging him as atonement for not having read him. He is more fun and funny than one might suspect.
Rushdie has a new story collection. ‘You’re a genius, obviously, Salman, but you’re also driving everyone nuts’ (Sunday Times) is a review.
But we allow our best writers a little leeway, and not all experiments can come off successfully. To ask Rushdie to restrain himself would be to lose the good parts too. Think of him like the young pianist in the second story here. At one point her husband says to her: “You’re a genius, obviously, darling, but you’re also driving everyone nuts with your racket.” “My racket,” she replies, “is not only what I do. It’s who I am.”
Salman Rushdie: a life in writing | FT (2023)
Meanwhile, back to 2025 and at The New Yorker, there is Salman Rushdie’s Literary Inspirations. Even genius needs inspiration.
Neil Gaiman and Margaret Atwood celebrate Salman Rushdie's latest book, Victory City (PEN America, 2023) - several readings then Gaiman and Atwood discuss the book and writing.
Salman Rushdie on no-platforming, magical realism and America in crisis (2018): Rushdie on his then latest novel, a discussion of magical realism (probably the most succinct description I have heard; probably made succinct by repetition), and - of course, The Satanic Verses. Rather touching, even ironic for the future coming towards Rushdie.
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