• Salman Rushdie's memoir 'Knife' recounts his attack and recovery

  • Apr 26 2024
  • Length: 17 mins
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Salman Rushdie's memoir 'Knife' recounts his attack and recovery

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  • In 2022, the author Salman Rushdie was onstage at a public event when a man ran up and stabbed him. His new memoir, Knife, delves into that moment when Rushdie thought he was going to die — and everything that's come after, as he's healed from the attack. In today's episode, he speaks at length with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about how the miracles found in his fiction might've manifested themselves in his real life, how his wife – poet Rachel Eliza Griffiths – has helped him move forward, and how writing about that experience became a way for him to fight back.

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