In New Memoir 'Knife,' Salman Rushdie Reflects on Being Attacked in 2022: ‘What Do I Imagine I Could Have Done?’
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People— Salman Rushdie is opening up about the horrific attempt on his life in 2022 in a new memoir. The writer, 76, is speaking out in-depth about...
PBS—Salman Rushdie reflects on attack that changed his life in new memoir 'Knife'. On August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie, one of the world’s best-known writers, was attacked and nearly killed by a young man with a knife. Rushdie has written of that harrowing day and all that’s followed in a new book. He discussed it with Jeffrey Brown for our arts and culture series, CANVAS.
CBS News—Salman Rushdie and his wife Rachel Eliza Griffiths confront past attack in new memoir. Award-winning author Salman Rushdie describes his new memoir as a "reckoning." In 2022, he was stabbed in the neck and abdomen more than a dozen times in western New York and lost sight in his right eye. In Rushdie's new memoir, "Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder," he writes about the attack. He and his wife, poet and author Rachel Eliza Griffiths, join "CBS Mornings" for their first joint live interview.
Washington Post—In ‘Knife,’ Salman Rushdie recounts the attack that nearly killed him. “Beauty is its own excuse for Being,” Emerson once wrote. In contrast, an interesting, unusual or disturbing experience is not always its...