Summer Reading

Brief Interviews With Hideous Men

"...But the chatter just doesn't fit some of these..."

June 4, 1999 Books Review

The American Voice

Jonathan Franzen's "The Corrections," and other new releases

"...Furyby Salman Rushdie..."

Sept. 21, 2001 Books Feature by David Garza

Midnight's Children

Salman Rushdie wrote the screenplay for this film, which is based on his Booker Prize-winning novel about the children who were born at the exact hour of India's independence in 1947.

"...Salman Rushdie wrote the screenplay for this epic, which is..."

June 14, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Experience: A Memoir

"...New Yorker dinner where he quarrelled with his friend Salman Rushdie over the question of Samuel Beckett's prose (Rushdie..."

Sept. 1, 2000 Books Review by Katherine Catmull

India Ink

The Literary Coming of the Second Continent

"...As Salman Rushdie has noted, most of the best Indian writers,..."

Dec. 5, 1997 Books Feature by Michael J. DiLeo

Sanctuary in the Past

In The Whispering Swarm, Michael Moorcock confronts ghosts – history's and his own – in a secret area of London

"...examine contemporary morality. Michael Chabon, Cormac McCarthy, Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, and many others are doing that. I read..."

Jan. 23, 2015 Arts Feature by Michael Berry

Then She Found Me

Helen Hunt directs and stars in this movie which finds just the right mix of drama, comedy, and the unknown – in other words, life as we live it.

"...pet causes, River Keepers, rates a smile, but when Salman Rushdie shows up in the role of April's gynecologist,..."

May 9, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

News/Print

Abe Louise Young eulogizes Allison Crews; plus, a Texas Book Festival update, Bill Hicks across the pond, and June's event offerings

"...at the Capitol and its environs. Among them are Salman Rushdie, whose new novel, Shalimar the Clown, will be..."

June 17, 2005 Books Column by Shawn Badgley

eXistenZ

An elaborate cat-and-mouse game between human reality and game reality from David Cronenberg.

"...the movie arose during an interview Cronenberg conducted with Salman Rushdie a few years ago while the author was..."

May 14, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Why Valentine’s Day Sucks

At least, the actual date of it – historically speaking

"...Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill author Salman Rushdie – because Rushdie wrote a book called The..."

Feb. 5, 2018 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Platform

"...but in this department author Michel Houellebecq has put Salman Rushdie to shame with the publication of his third..."

Sept. 12, 2003 Books Review by Marc Savlov

News/Print

Something wonderful is about to happen to you.

"...the table. Highly recommended... No, okay, finally for real: Salman Rushdie will appear at Barnes & Noble Arboretum on..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Books Column by Shawn Badgley

Who Let the Dogs Out?

A playlist for the dog days of summer

"...Train" engineer after he endorsed putting a bounty on Salman Rushdie's head in 1989. This time, he admitted to..."

July 17, 2015 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

We Remember What the Dormouse Said

Ten authors cut you a little slice of their own personal Wonderlands

"...knitting and unraveling and re-knitting itself around you. Some Salman Rushdie narrator says: “Metamorphosis is the secret heart of..."

March 31, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Break On Through

Doors drummer John Densmore riffs on commercial licensing

"...did this” or “I did that.” A great writer, Salman Rushdie, considers that too arrogant, so he’ll write a..."

May 7, 2013 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Hitch Renewed

Remembering Christopher Hitchens and his call to contrarianism

"...some of the greats at that, like Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, and Martin Amis. He was not only open..."

Dec. 17, 2012 Books Post by Larysa Pachulski

'There To Tell the Truth'

Seymour Hersh on journalism, politics, presidents, and war

"...fatwa we want to believe is the one against Salman Rushdie. We believe that one, but we don't believe..."

March 30, 2012 News Feature by Michael King

sxswi: Arm Candy

Talking with tote bag designer Molly Crabapple

"...PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, chaired by Salman Rushdie. "I feel all classy," she said...."

March 14, 2011 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

re:Psyche

A fine creative team works to reimagine a myth, its own play, and love itself

"...to die." There is both a cyclical nature to Salman Rushdie's words and a mark of finality as well..."

July 2, 2010 Arts Review by Avimaan Syam

Ian McEwan Appears at UT (and in the Pages of 'The New Yorker')

The sprawling profile is a good way get excited about the Booker Prize-winning author's upcoming reading

"...talking poetry with Martin Amis in the Seventies; secreting Salman Rushdie away to a Cotswolds cottage shortly after the..."

Feb. 19, 2009 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

FronteraFest Short Fringe, Week One

A night full of the unexpected surprises that make FronteraFest worth going to

"...I once listened to Salman Rushdie refer to a three-page Colombian short story that..."

Jan. 23, 2009 Arts Review by Avimaan Syam

Foreword

Previewing the 2006 Texas Book Festival

"...of his work. Jack Kerouac, Alice Adams, Langston Hughes, Salman Rushdie, and Tennessee Williams are among the other featured..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Books Feature by Belinda Acosta

Film News

"...Water in advance of the Austin Jewish Book Fair. Salman Rushdie called the acting "intimate, painful, wounded, jaundiced, corrupted,..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Lost in La Mancha

It's not a Halloween movie, but Lost in La Mancha offers a glimpse into Terry Gilliam's own personal nightmare.

"...the documentary team, a "conversation" between Gilliam and author Salman Rushdie at the Telluride Fest, and the unedited version..."

Oct. 31, 2003 Screens Review by Darcie Stevens

Naked City

Happenings

"...call 477-6060. Upcoming speakers in the series include authors Salman Rushdie, Jared Diamond, and Dava Sobel and Texas politicos..."

Jan. 17, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Best of The Nation: Selections From the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture

"...There are leading novelist-essayists including E. L. Doctorow, Salman Rushdie, and Gore Vidal. There are cultural critics like..."

July 20, 2001 Books Review by Tim Walker

In God's Country

Why U2 is the best band ever

"...they prefer the company of people like Wim Wenders, Salman Rushdie, and Bill Clinton as opposed to the usual..."

March 30, 2001 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere

"...devote considerable space to his friends Gore Vidal and Salman Rushdie, or to men such as Oscar Wilde and..."

March 23, 2001 Books Review by Tim Walker

Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope: All Story

"...essays come from the likes of David Mamet and Salman Rushdie, but still ... leave those slots for the..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Books Review by Shawn Badgley

The Million Dollar Hotel (Interscope)

"...Ground Beneath Her Feet" (with lyrics by Bono bud Salman Rushdie) nor "Stateless" show any signs of slippage; Edge's..."

April 28, 2000 Music Review by Christopher Gray

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