salman rushdie
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“The Stressful Life of Salman Rushdie and Implementation of his Verdict”
Iran is implementing a new strategy to teach its youth about Salman Rushdie’s fatwa-inducing sin. Iran’s National Foundation of Computer Games (Yep. Really. We have one, too.) asked students three years ago to submit scripts for the game and the…
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Kashmir Festival Over Before it Starts
Kashmir was supposed to hold its very first literary festival at the end of September, but preempting violence from organizers and growing fears have unfortunately postponed the event. Salman Rushdie occupies contentious author-space overseas. His novel, The Satanic Verses was…
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Rushdie Writes for TV
Salman Rushdie is applying his story-telling skills to a new medium, signing up to do a sci-fi-ish television series, affirming his belief that TV maximizes communication because of its wide appeal. His new work will be called “The Next People.”
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Notable New York, This Week 11/16 – 11/21
The week in New York Jonathan Ames has a Ball, Salman Rushdie reads, Paul Auster stays true to NYC, Ann Beattie compiles stories form The New Yorker, Patti Smith hosts a tribute for Jim Carroll, feel Refreshx3 at Happy Ending,…
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A Dangerous Time For Writers
“If your task is to push out the boundaries, and open up the universe, you cannot do that by sitting safely in the middle of the room. If you want to push out the borders, you have to actually go…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #25: Chris Graham in Conversation in a Syrian Taxi
Mohaned works at a small hotel in Palmyra, a desert town in northeast Syria. On the side, he helps a friend pitch taxi rides to tourists. (Mohaned speaks Arabic and English; his friend speaks only Arabic.) The following is an…
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Notable New York, This Week 4/26 – 5/2
This week in New York the sixth annual PEN World Voices Festival (PWVF) opens its week-long celebration of international writing with such notable literary figures as Sherman Alexie, Claire Messud, Yiyun Li, Salman Rushdie and Lewis Lapham among others (Full…
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Notable New York, This Week 4/12 – 4/18
This week in New York The Future of Criticism with Lorin Stein and Maud Newton, John D’Agata and Thalia Field discuss the lyric essay, Alice Walker on activism, Salman Rushdie and Lee Bollinger discuss free speech in a globalized world,…
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Rumpus Original Fiction: “Bobcat” by Rebecca Lee
The Rumpus welcomes Madras Press and proudly offers an excerpt from “Bobcat,” by Rebecca Lee.
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Notable New York, This Week 9/28-10/4
This week in New York, Charles Simic reads, Spin Mag hosts Salman Rushdie, The New York Film Festival opens, Philip Seymour Hoffman stars in Peter Sellars’ production of Othello and Robert Lepage’s “Mindblowing” Lipsynch begins at BAM. Monday, September 28,…
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The Rumpus Interview With Karan Mahajan
Karan Mahajan discusses Family Planning, Indian literature, and the recent attacks in Mumbai.