In first TV interview since his stabbing, writer tells how knifeman was ‘last thing my right eye would ever see’Salman Rushdie has said that his first thought upon seeing the man who would stab him on stage in August 2022 was: “So it’s you. Here you are.”“It felt like something coming out of the distant past and trying to drag me back in time, if you like, back into that distant past, in order to kill me,” said the Indian-born British-American author of books including The Satanic Verses and...
Salman Rushdie's first book since the 2022 stabbing he thought might end his life is both explicit in the violence Rushdie sustains and heroic in the will to live that Rushdie retains.
British-American author Salman Rushdie recounts the near-fatal stabbing at a public event in 2022 that left him blind in one eye and his journey to healing in his new memoir "Knife," which hits stores Tuesday.In an interview with CBS program "60 Minutes" ahead of the release of "Knife," Rushdie recounted he had dreamed two days before the attack of being stabbed in an amphitheater -- and considered not attending the event.
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Rushdie was onstage at a literary event in 2022 when he was attacked by a man in the audience: "Dying in the company of strangers — that was what was going through my mind." His new book is Knife.
Salman Rushdie isn't limiting himself to just his new memoir to recount the 2022 stabbing attack that nearly killed him. Ahead of the release of his newest memoir, "Knife," the "Satanic Verses" author has returned to the media spotlight, recounting some gruesome details of his near-death experience and how he seeks to take "the power back." On Aug. 12, 2022, Rushdie appeared at the Chautauqua Institution in New York, where he was supposed to deliver a lecture. While he prepared, a man — later...
Dozens of death penalty convictions in Alameda County must be reviewed after prosecutors there were found to have intentionally excluded Black and Jewish jurors during a murder trial in 1995, a federal judge ordered. Handwritten notes from prosecutors in the decades-old case suggests the attorneys were involved in "serious misconduct," but Alameda County Dist. Atty. Pamela Price on Monday said additional evidence suggests more death penalty cases may have been tainted by prosecutors trying to...
The judge in Donald Trump's hush money trial has ordered the media not to report where potential jurors have worked
The judge in Donald Trump's hush money trial has ordered the media not to report where potential jurors have worked
NEW YORK (AP) — The judge in Donald Trump’s hush money trial ordered the media on Thursday not to report on where potential jurors have worked and to be careful […]
The judge in Donald Trump's hush money trial has ordered the media not to report where potential jurors have worked. Judge Juan Merchan also asked journalists on Thursday to show some discretion on what they say about the potential jurors as he tries to seat a jury pool of people who can remain anonymous. Two jurors who had earlier been seated were dismissed on Thursday, with one expressing concern about people she knew questioning her about whether she was on the jury. Besides showing the...
NEW YORK (AP) — The judge in Donald Trump’s hush money trial ordered the media on Thursday not to report on where potential jurors have worked and to be careful about revealing information about those who will sit in judgment of the former president. Judge Juan Merchan acted after one juror was dismissed when she […]