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Salman Rushdie on Surviving the Fatwa

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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Victory City by Salman Rushdie

This is the first time that Salman Rushdie has spoken publicly since the attack. We're going to spend all of the New Yorker radio hour today with him talking about the fatwa and the near assassination 33 years later. But we'll also talk, and this is what he was most eager to do, about literature, about storytelling. His new novel, Victory City, comes out this week.

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