Posted on Aug 20, 2022
Paul Auster, Aasif Mandvi and others support Salman Rushdie with public readings
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On the steps of New York Public Library, such prominent writers as Paul Auster, Gay Talese and Kiran Desai drew from Salman Rushdie's own words to express their solidarity with the 75-year-old after he was brutally attacked at a literary event in western New York.
"Not even a blade to the throat could still the voice of Salman Rushdie," Suzanne Nossel, chief executive officer of the event's co-organizer, PEN America, told the audience.
The group of writers shared their affection and admiration for Rushdie, decried the violence and assured him they would continue to defend freedom of expression.
On the steps of New York Public Library, such prominent writers as Paul Auster, Gay Talese and Kiran Desai drew from Salman Rushdie's own words to express their solidarity with the 75-year-old after he was brutally attacked at a literary event in western New York.
"Not even a blade to the throat could still the voice of Salman Rushdie," Suzanne Nossel, chief executive officer of the event's co-organizer, PEN America, told the audience.
The group of writers shared their affection and admiration for Rushdie, decried the violence and assured him they would continue to defend freedom of expression.
Paul Auster, Aasif Mandvi and others support Salman Rushdie with public readings
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Comedian Aasif Mandvi read from the author's forthcoming novel, Victory City. A.M. Holmes read from a lecture Rushdie gave on censorship at the PEN World Voices Festival in 2012. Paul Auster read from Joseph Anton: A Memoir, Rushdie's autobiography. Since Rushdie couldn't publish under his own name, he combined the first names of two of his literary heroes, Joseph Conrad and Anton Chekhov.
The event was called Stand with Salman: Defend the Freedom to Write.
Nossel said that Rushdie planned to watch the live stream from his hospital room. "At a time when book bans and lies and disinformation engulf our politics," said Nossel, "we must fight with vigor as if all our freedoms depend on it because they do."
..."Comedian Aasif Mandvi read from the author's forthcoming novel, Victory City. A.M. Holmes read from a lecture Rushdie gave on censorship at the PEN World Voices Festival in 2012. Paul Auster read from Joseph Anton: A Memoir, Rushdie's autobiography. Since Rushdie couldn't publish under his own name, he combined the first names of two of his literary heroes, Joseph Conrad and Anton Chekhov.
The event was called Stand with Salman: Defend the Freedom to Write.
Nossel said that Rushdie planned to watch the live stream from his hospital room. "At a time when book bans and lies and disinformation engulf our politics," said Nossel, "we must fight with vigor as if all our freedoms depend on it because they do."
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