By Faye Penn 5/09 12:17pm

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Cindy Adams makes the rounds at the Pen Literary Gala. (Photo: Beowulf Sheehan/PEN American Center)

Night at the Museum: Cindy Adams Works a Room

INT. MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — EVENING CINDY ADAMS is standing with a friend among a crowd of hundreds, surveying the black-tie attendees at the PEN Literary Gala, who include Philip Roth, Zadie Smith, Jay McInerney, Jennifer Egan, Candace Bushnell, Joanna Coles and Peter Godwin.

Ms. Adams is wearing a splashy, graphic print jacket and a bun atop her head. A stream of partygoers greet her. She is approached by the Transom and asked how to work a room. Read More

By Peter Davis 4/09 9:00am

The Eight-Day Week

Deepa Mehta and Salman Rushdie.

To Do Tuesday: A Midnight Clear

See banned The Satanic Verses author and now screenwriter Salman Rushdie premiere his film Midnight’s Children, adapted with director Deepa Mehta from his best-selling novel. Mr. Rushdie and Ms. Mehta will then discuss the movie, about a pair of kids growing up in an India that is gaining independence from Britain and is nothing like Read More

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke 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 Drew Grant 11/14/11 2:49pm

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Salman vents on Twitter about Facebook

Salman Rushdie Convinces Facebook He's Not a Catfish

Poor Salman Rushdie: there seems to be a social networking fatwa against his digital presence. First there was that incident where he tried to claim his Twitter handle, only to find out there was someone already squatting on @salmanrushdie. Humiliated, the Satanic Verses author was forced to claim @salmanrushdie1 until he gained enough support to push out the faker and reign over his rightful tweets.

To add insult to injury, Facebook deactivated his account yesterday, thinking he was an imposter. Then they refused to let him back under the name “Salman Rushdie.” Read More

By Emily Witt 10/14/11 3:55pm

Occupy Wall Street

Wylie.

The Zuccotti Literatti: Slumbering Prolixariat Awakes

As support for Occupy Wall Street grew in recent weeks to include all kinds of professional associations and trade unions, the writer Jeff Sharlet thought that some writers might eventually band together and circulate a statement — and maybe even sign it.

“I was waiting for the letter to happen,” said the author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power. “I was thinking probably somebody will do this.” Read More

By Drew Grant 9/22/11 12:19pm

Celebrity Twitter

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Update: Irrepressible Salman Rushdie Responds to Twitter Handle Win

Congratulations to Salman Rushdie, who finally gained his official Twitter handle after shaming another person off of it. Mr. Rushdie joined Twitter this week but had to take the handle @SalmanRushdie1 because some goofball had already been tweeting out from @SalmanRushdie. As of yesterday, it was still being reported that Mr. Rushdie was verified at @SalmanRushdie1, but had sent a message to the faux-tweeter: “Who are you? why are you pretending to be me? Release this username. You are a phoney. All followers please note.” Read More

By Elise Knutsen 7/05/11 8:51pm

Shindigger

Rutherford.

Shen Yun Performance Brings Out Stars And Awareness

On a rainy Thursday, guests braved the traffic mess created by President Obama’s visit to New York and streamed into Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater in a blur of gowns and tuxes. High-profile attendees from the worlds of fashion (Hamish Bowles, Donna Karan), literature (Salman Rushdie), rock ’n’ roll (Ric Oscasek, Paulina Porizkova and Read More

By Marissa Capodanno 10/06/09 11:22pm

Rushdie, Redford, Ruschka Pick Up Plaques at Cipriani

British-Indian novelist Salman Rushdie was one of the first to arrive at the National Arts Awards at Cipriani 42nd Street on Monday, Oct. 5. Known as a champion of freedom of expression, the author ruminated on the current challenges faced by the world of the arts, and the particular struggle of the written word.

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