By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke 9/21/12 8:20am

Notes From The Underground

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Salman Rushdie Relives His Time in Hiding

The lights dimmed and mood music began to play as Salman Rushdie walked to the stage at PowerHouse Arena in Dumbo the other night as part of a week of events to launch his new memoir, Joseph Anton.

The title of the book is the pseudonym that Mr. Rushdie used while he was in hiding after Iran’s leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa calling for the author’s death following the publication of The Satanic Verses in 1989. The book, which is written in the third person, focuses mostly on the period when Mr. Rushdie was in hiding before the fatwa was lifted in 2002.

Mr. Rushdie stood at the microphone in a slightly baggy, somewhat wrinkled gray suit and a blue shirt unbuttoned at the neck. Read More

By Nicole Dweck 10/08/07 6:58pm

Rushdie, Pamuk Kiss and Make Up After Tiny Tiff

On Friday night, Salman Rushdie was talking about Dorothy—that is, the Dorothy portrayed by Judy Garland in the 1939 film version of The Wizard of Oz.

Her mantra—“There’s noplace like home!”—is apparently not shared by the literary superstar whose 1988 novel, The Satanic Verses, was banned in his native India and resulted in a fatwa Read More

By NYO Staff 6/16/03 12:00am

The Quiet One

So far, Deborah Treisman is shaping up to be the George Harrison of the storied New Yorker fiction department-she’s the quiet one.

“It’s been great to not have any press about me for awhile,” confessed the 33-year-old fiction editor on Friday, June 6. She was picking over a plate of salmon at the Bryant Park Read More