Philadelphia Weekly

Salman Rushdie

In 2007, Salman Rushdie was knighted by Queen Elizabeth for his services to literature. So he’s Sir Salman Rushdie now. Sir Salman’s celebrated literary career turned messily political in 1989 after the publication of his fourth book, The Satanic Verses when Iran’s spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa, or religious edict, calling for Rushdie’s execution. This started a spiraling and spellbinding descent into hiding followed by an ascent into high society for the author, which he recounts lengthily in his new memoir, Joseph Anton. Writing in the third person, he reminisces on dodging death squads and rubbing elbows with his ever expanding array of celebrity friends. Never particularly self-effacing, Rushdie’s night at the library will surely be pithy, anecdotal and opinionated. -Allyn Gaestel

7:30pm. $15. Central Library, 19th and Vine sts. 215.567.4341. freelibrary.org

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Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Recurring: ONCE

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7:30pm. $15.

WHERE
Central Library , 1901 Vine St., Philadelphia, PA
One time only on 10/30/2012. .

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