Salman Rushdie

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• Fitzgerald: To ensure freedom of speech, a short way with the suppressors

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 612
  Not long ago Robert Spencer and another speaker were attempting to elucidate, for an audience in New York, the ideology of Islam , that ideology that explains, without much trouble, the behavior of many Muslims, and the real attitudes of many more. Someone in the audience caused a stir, and while the ...
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• Freddie Mercury – The Dostoyevsky of Rock Music

  
  Kottu — Authority: 156
  Freddie Mercury – The Dostoyevsky of Rock Music When Im dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance. -Freddie Mercury Freddie Mercury emerged as a popular singer when Elvis, Mick Jagger, Ian Gillan, John Lennon, Barry Gibb, Mike Love etc dominated the music world. When he ...
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• UK lawyers fight to save nine-year-old boy from deportation to Iran

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Mother says family faces jail in Tehran for possessing extracts from Satanic Verses and criticising regime Lawyers for a nine-year-old boy set to be removed from the UK tomorrow are urgently trying to stop his deportation. The Iranian boy, known for legal reasons as Child M, has been locked up in Yarls Wood in ...
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• Sir Salman Rushdie and a rude literary row

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  When Sigrid Rausing the Tetra Pak heiress announced this summer that Alex Clark was stepping down as editor of her books magazine Granta she left the literary world bemused.
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• The Future is Another Country: Place of the Year 2009

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 742
  Michelle Rafferty, Publicity Assistant Peter McDonald was the first to investigate the newly opened archives of South Africa’s apartheid censorship bureaucracy in 1999. The process wasn’t easy—evidence was everywhere. Some materials had been deposited in the State Archives in Cape Town, some in Pretoria, ...
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• Salman Rushdie to Write Sequel to Haroun and the Sea of Stories

  
  Book Case — Authority: 416
  The Bookseller reports that Salman Rushdie plans to write a sequel to one of my favourite of his books – Haroun and the Sea of Stories. Rushdie wrote the book in 1990 for his son Zafar. The sequel Luka and the Fire of Life will be published in 2010 by Jonathan Cape. Rushdie has written [...]Related posts: 12 ...
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• Late Night

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 486
  Late night. * What is the jobless rate for people like you? Post-racial America is awesome. ( via ) * Salman Rushdie totally doesnt know his kryptonite. * DC caught mishandling its recycling. ( via ) D.C. law requires recycling at all city buildings, though the law appears to stop at the threshold of all ...
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• Model Padma Lakshmi shares her top weight loss tricks

  
  Chit Chat Chica — Authority: 132
  Salman Rushdie’s ex-wife Padma Lakshmi has revealed her top weight loss tips and they include ditching faddy diets, eating fried chicken and saying yes to carbs. The 5ft 10ins model – who recently announced she is pregnant with her first child – confesses that she puts on between 10 and 15lbs while filming Top ...
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• Arlene Phillips waltzes into a new role

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  Dropped by the BBC from Strictly Come Dancing in favour of Alesha Dixon who is 35 years her junior Arlene Phillips appears to be having the last laugh.
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• On Dedications

  
  Book Case — Authority: 117
  Dedications. Those small, quiet lines at the front of the book that give the reader a brief flash of insight into the world of the writer rather than that of the story. A note of thanks to a lover, friend, relative or mysterious initialed associate, “The dedication of the novel is the most personal and [...]Related ...
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• Krug Mind Share Auction

  
  Chic Today — Authority: 131
  Image courtesy of Krug Mind Share Krug has teamed up with some of the greatest minds alive to create a unique auction–all in the name of charity. On 5 November, Christie’s will be holding the Krug Mind Share auction, which will see 8 high-profile individuals, including WPP mogul Sir Martin Sorrell, ...
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• "Muslim woman held in slay try of husband; he made her wear sexy skirts and eat pork."

  
  Althouse — Authority: 749
  The husband survived. Thats what "slay try" means, it took me a while to notice. "Shes a very devout Muslim and she felt that he got her to marry him under false pretenses," a source said. "He doesnt really observe any of the traditions of Islam. She says he forced her to eat pork and wear short skirts." She also ...
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• Book Review: Lost Mission

  
  Amy Letinsky — Authority: 112
  Athol Dickson’s latest book, Lost Mission , was a pleasant surprise.  Every so often, I try to read current Christian fiction to see what’s going on in that market.  I admit, it’s not my favorite genre, largely because the quality of the writing has been so poor, especially when compared with the general ...
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• Spring Rolls With Warhol, And More From Indochine

  
  Style File — Authority: 145
  The first time Jean-Marc Houmard waited on Andy Warhol at Indochine, he accidentally brushed his hand while serving a pot of tea. This anecdote, one of many included in the new book Indochine: Stories, Shaken and Stirred (Rizzoli), edited by Houmard and Maer Roshan, sums up the place’s enduring appeal: glamorous ...
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• Salman Rushdie: Graphic Novelist?

  
  Blog@Newsarama — Authority: 660
  Fans of Craig Ferguson got an intersting surprise Tuesday night, when award-winning author Salman Rushdie alluded that he would be taking his talents toward sequential art. Here’s a highlight, from ICv2 : Ferguson asked, “Do you ever think, “Oh, I’d quite like to write a book with just pictures and ...
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• Aravind Adiga’s second novel to be out in 2011

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Oct 29 (IANS) After winning the 2008 Man Booker Prize for his debut novel, “The White Tiger”, Indian-born author Aravind Adiga will publish his second venture “Last Man in the Tower” in early 2011, the author’s publisher said Thursday.The Indian rights for Adiga’s new novel have been acquired by ...
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• Salman Rushdie to write Graphic Novel

  
  Assam Information Portal — Authority: 444
  India-born British author Salman Rushdie is planning to try his hands on graphic novel. According to news sources, the controversial author was a fan of comic books as child and is now moving on from magical realism and historical fiction to graphic novel.“Recently I got asked if I’d like to write a graphic novel. ...
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• Salman Rushdie to pen graphic novel?

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, October 29 (ANI): Author Salman Rushdie is planning to move on from magical realism and historical fiction to pen a graphic novel.“Recently I got asked if I’d like to write a graphic novel. When I was a kid I was a real comic book nut and I can tell you a lot about superheroes,” [...]
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• Twilight with Sir Salman

  
  Ultrabrown — Authority: 129
  Craig Ferguson brings us a very entertaining, Halloween-themed Rushdie interview. They discuss vampires, Enchantress , Michiko Kakutani, sexual awakenings at Cambridge, Romanian translators, graphic novels, the difference between red and green kryptonite, and dick jokes. (thanks, Joolz)
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• Our contributors elsewhere

  
  PEN America — Authority: 108
  Cynthia Ozick’s essay “Ghost Writers,” which was published in PEN America 9: Checkpoints , is in the new edition of Best American Essays . José Rubén Zamora ’s description of a raid on his house by the Guatemalan military, published in PEN America 10: Fear Itself , is in the new issue of ...
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