Salman Rushdie attacked on stage in New York

[Orang Utan]

Maybe he was just frustrated and annoyed by Rushdie’s self-satisfied, tortuous and circumlocutory literary style

 

[Orang Utan]

I wonder if Will Self is next on his hit list

 

[DaveCinzano]

I wonder if Will Self is next on his hit list

I think you mean proximate to Charon's passenger backlog

 

[Yossarian]

I wonder if Will Self is next on his hit list

With the suspect in custody the matter is probably an obliviality for Self.

 

[xenon]

Incarcerated murder suspects give interviews to the New York post?

 

[DaveCinzano]

Incarcerated murder suspects give interviews to the New York post?

EXCLUSIVE: BRAINS BEHIND HEADLESS CORPSE FOUND IN TOPLESS BAR SPEAKS

 

[DotCommunist]

I see all the worst people in the world are now trying to explain how their critics and political enemies are walking fatwahs, and they are Rushdie

 

[petee]

Incarcerated murder suspects give interviews to the New York post?

they'll print interviews with anyone

GET A CUPPA JOE & CHECK YOUR DOUGH – NEW BANK CAFES WANT YOU TO PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS

OH, if only the Al Pacino character in “Dog Day Afternoon” would try sticking up a bank today.They’d prop him in a plush velvet lounge, shove a cappuccino in his hand and share si…

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Heywood Jablome, 41, a Manhattan real estate agent, agreed.

“This is a nice-looking store, but I don’t see people coming in here to trade,” he said. “Not the ‘suits’ who work up here. No way!”

 

[pseudonarcissus]

I’ve been meaning to post this for a while..The great Tony Harrison’s Blasphemers’ Banquet.



Powerful stuff, well worth watching to the end..I don’t think the BBC would dare broadcast this nowadays

 

[bluescreen]

I’ve been meaning to post this for a while..The great Tony Harrison’s Blasphemers’ Banquet.



Powerful stuff, well worth watching to the end..I don’t think the BBC would dare broadcast this nowadays

Fantastic film. I was at a screening in the 90s, post-fatwa, in a literary audience and there were a few people in the Q & A afterwards arguing that Rushdie had brought it all on himself by being so disrespectful.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

Fantastic film. I was at a screening in the 90s, post-fatwa, in a literary audience and there were a few people in the Q & A afterwards arguing that Rushdie had brought it all on himself by being so disrespectful.

I remember watching it when I was at college, 1989 I guess. I used to know Tony’s son.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Return of the Rushdie.

Written a book about it. as he does.

Salman Rushdie: Author says knife attacker came at him like a 'missile'

The 76-year-old novelist suffered life-changing injuries, including the loss of his sight in one eye and limited feeling in his left hand, in the attack at a literary event in New York state in August 2022.

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