This photo seems to have vanished from my tweets. Here it is again, just for the record.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
@SalmanRushdie
In the immortal words of Popeye the Sailor Man: I yam what I yam and that's all that I yam.
Joined September 2011
- Roald Dahl was no angel but this is absurd censorship. Puffin Books and the Dahl estate should be ashamed.At @PENamerica we are alarmed at news of "hundreds of changes" to venerated works by @roald_dahl in a purported effort to scrub the books of that which might offend someone. 1/13 theguardian.com/books/2023/feb…
- He was a self confessed antisemite, with pronounced racist leanings, and he joined in the attack on me back in 1989… but thanks for telling me off for defending his work from the bowdlerizing Sensitivity Police.This Post is from an account that no longer exists. Learn more
- You’re not required to buy it. The truth is the truth whether you buy it or not. The planet is round even if you don’t buy that and insist it’s flat.
- Fake quote. Not said by me,
- We disagreed all our lives, about politics, about literature, and I feel as sad as if I just lost a beloved older brother. RIP Vidia. #VSNaipaul
- Even from seven thousand miles away it’s clear that what’s happening in Kashmir is an atrocity. Not much to celebrate this August 15th.
- How to brush aside the tragedy of 210,000 American families in one steroid-high tweet.I will be leaving the great Walter Reed Medical Center today at 6:30 P.M. Feeling really good! Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life. We have developed, under the Trump Administration, some really great drugs & knowledge. I feel better than I did 20 years ago!
- Here are the US and UK editions! US publication date: February 7th. UK on February 9th. Not long now.
- Just wondering if the Royal Society of Literature is “impartial” about attempted murder, @BernardineEvari ? (Asking for a friend.)
