Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children: Adapted for the Theatre by Salman Rushdie, Simon Reade and Tim Supple (Modern Library Paperbacks)
Eye On The World (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
( Indonesia ) Isn't it amazing how offended Muslims can get over something they haven't a clue about? 99.99% of the idiots who wanted Salman Rushdie dead for his book 'The Satanic Verses' can't even read English. (For some reason I cannot see it being published in Arabic, Urdu or Farsi.) But hey, how they protested and killed people who stood in their way. The same goes for the Danish cartoons . (I...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
"In an online poll conducted by the National Book Foundation, [Flannery O'Connor's] collection 'The Complete Stories' was named the best work to have won the National Book Award for fiction in the contest's 60-year history." The competition was formidable: collected stories of John Cheever, William Faulkner and Eudora Welty as well as Ellison's Invisible Man and Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow....
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Mother says family faces jail in Tehran for possessing extracts from Satanic Verses and criticising regime Lawyers for a nine-year-old boy set to be removed from the UK tomorrow are urgently trying to stop his deportation. The Iranian boy, known for legal reasons as Child M, has been locked up in Yarl's Wood in Bedfordshire, the UK's main immigration removal centre for women and families, since he...
JogBlog (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
I was in the library yesterday picking up a copy of The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie (not my choice, someone picked it for this month’s book club, bah) and on the way out I spotted a leaflet advertising a Santa fun run in Maidstone and so I thought, cool, a local race, [...] Related posts: Dagenham Santathon 5k race report Runners I met and liked A (relatively) pain free 12 miles...
Free Dating Tips For UK Personals (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Money and power attract younger girls to older men, and intellect is often the clincher. Nerdy men attract the best babes! Is there a fatal chemistry between intellectual men and super-glamorous women even on many internet dating sites? So, when Salman Rushdie, 62, attended a recent writers’ gala with 26-year-old Harvard grad and glamorous Min Lieskovsky, [...]
AUS style (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
A shipment of some rather hipster books I ordered arrived on my doorstep yesterday. The first is Lesley Arfin's Dear Diary which, after reading a review about in either Russh Or Yen ages ago, I have been meaning to get my hands on. I don't enjoy Lesley's column for Russh immensely but I'm quite sure her life 'experience' as documented in this book should be interesting enough. Lesley lives in Brooklyn...
MR's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
HR 2404: To require the Secretary of Defense to submit a report to Congress outlining the United States exit strategy for United States military forces in Afghanistan participating in Operation Enduring Freedom. Sources 1 | 2 (Full bill here) This is a really interesting piece of proposed legislation. It basically forces the government to come up with [...] Related posts: America’s own experts...
Entertainment and Showbiz! (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Those looking to get into the mind of Simon Cowell had their wish granted after the music mogul decided to put his grey matter under the hammer for charity. The X Factor judge, along with other big names including Topshop tycoon Sir Philip Green and author Sir Salman Rushdie, put their names on the auction list [...]
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Salman Rushdie wouldn't mind writing one, it seems. Some of the world's best literary talents are already into it. Scottish author Ian Rankin, one of the finest contemporary practitioners of crime fiction, has already written one featuring John Constantine from the Hellblazer series.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
When Sigrid Rausing the Tetra Pak heiress announced this summer that Alex Clark was stepping down as editor of her books magazine Granta she left the literary world bemused.
Joy and Slavery (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Microsoft Office is downloading an update to the ol' computer. So I'm going to flex my writing muscles on the blog this morning. This has been a jam-packed semester, so blogging has been a low priority for the last couple of months. Now, though, I'm going to take advantage of this lull to blog about my anxieties. Hooray!!! Things are going fairly well for my MFA application process at this point. The...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Anyone who counts Ayatollah Abdolhossein Moezi as a spiritual leader is unlikely to have joined the British military in the first place. He is the religious envoy of the same regime that calls Britain “the little Satan”. Ayatollah Moezi is the director of the Islamic Centre of England , the London outpost of Iran’s neoconservative regime — a role to which he was personally appointed...
GayandRight (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Well, of course, it would be a dangerous film... Salman Rushdie wasn’t the first, and Kurt Westergaard won’t be the last. All artists and writers who dare to depict Islam in an unfavorable light can expect the worst if they offend the world’s 7.8 quadrillion Muslims. The latest incident concerns a movie based on the life of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, which was being filmed in Kenya. As anyone...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
As the publishing world heads home for the weekend, here are some publishing news briefs for your reading pleasure. Nicknamed "a sort of YouTube for publishing," Scribd has scored a spot on Business Week 's " The World's Most Intriguing Companies " list. Also intriguing: to date, they've raised $12.8 million in funding. Cultural critic Mark Dery proves that 2012 is not the end...
Daddy Likey (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Sorry for those of you who live nowhere near Oregon, but I have another book event coming up tomorrow that I'd love my local peeps to come to. If you live far away, feel free to ignore the content of this post and look at this funny werewolf comic instead: By Brad Neely Now, for you P-Town people: Closet Confidential Reading/Signing/FREE DONUTS Where: Tanasbourne Barnes & Noble 18300 NW Evergreen...
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