Author Salman Rushdie was attacked and apparently stabbed Friday by a man who rushed onstage as Rushdie was about to deliver a lecture in Western New York. Rushdie has repeatedly received death threats from Iran since 1980s for his writing. Rushdie was taken by helicopter to a hospital, police said, adding that his condition is … Read more
Author Salman Rushdie was attacked on Friday in New York State, while preparing to give a lecture. Video from the event shows security swarming the stage and Rushdie lying on the ground. Initial reports said he was stabbed. The attacker has been arrested. Rushdie, 75, was preparing to give a speech at the Chautauqua Institution. … Read more
Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked Friday as he was about to give a lecture in western New York. #SalmanRushdie just attacked onstage at @chq @NBCNews @ABC @cnnbrk pic.twitter.com/I1XT6AmkhK — Charles Savenor (@CharlieSavenor) August 12, 2022 An Associated Press reporter witnessed a man storm … Read more
Image Credit: Courtesy of Lis Smith MoreBonnie Says If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, we may receive an affiliate commission. Most voters don’t know Lis Smith. But thanks to her behind-the-scenes work, ‘Mayor Pete’ Buttigieg became a household name during the 2020 presidential campaign. He became … Read more
In 2001, author and journalist Ahmed Rashid wrote the definitive account of the Taliban and its origins. NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly now speaks with Rashid, a year after the Taliban re-took Afghanistan. Source link
Hot horror author Philip Fracassi’s short story, Death, My Old Friend, has been optioned by director Christopher Riggert for his feature directing debut. Terms were not disclosed. In Fracassi’s short story, a boy sparks an unlikely relationship with the personification of Death. As they grow older, and Death begins taking those closest to him, he … Read more
SENDAI, Japan — Kotaro Isaka, one of Japan’s most popular crime thriller writers, is a self-described homebody. He rarely leaves Sendai, the city in northeast Japan where he lives, and many of his books are set there. Yet when his 2010 novel “Maria Beetle” was adapted into “Bullet Train,” a Hollywood action film starring Brad … Read more