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In 'The Eleventh Hour,' Salman Rushdie writes about morality, revenge and ghosts

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On Censorship, Language and Embodying Ideas

Andrew Limbaugh asks about censorship and language in 'The Old Man in the Piazza'; Rushdie explains how language unexpectedly appeared personified as a woman in the story.

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