Salman Rushdie on Surviving the Fatwa
The New Yorker Radio Hour
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The Kind of Book I Haven't Written Is the Kind of Book Which Focuses on a Microscope and Makes the Universe From It
I thought it was a bump in the road, which is an elegant way to put it. What I'm thinking now, which is my germ on the way to the book, is that one of the things that my books have tended to be is panoramic. They've tended to be like widescreen with substantially large cast of characters and sometimes set in many places what Henry James used to call the loose magic monster. This can't be panoramic is what you're doing. People who write books where they can take to see the world in a grain of sand. It doesn't feel third personish to me. When somebody sticks a knife into you, that's a first
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