Salman Rushdie
This week, we\u2019re going into the City Arts and Lectures archives for highlights from the many times Salman Rushdie has come to San Francisco.\xa0 Rushdie is the author of fifteen novels, including Victory City, which is expected to be published in early 2023, as well as non-fiction works and short stories. Of course, he\u2019s much in our thoughts these days after being attacked on August 12th, 2022, minutes before he was to appear onstage in New York.
\nIn the first half of this program, we\u2019ll hear part of Rushdie\u2019s most recent visit to City Arts and Lectures in 2017 where he talked with fellow author Michael Chabon. \xa0In the second half, we\u2019ll hear excerpts from conversations recorded in 2008, 2010, and 2015 Rushdie had with his most frequent partner on our stage, KQED\u2019s Michael Krasny. \xa0\xa0Rushdie talks about his writing and the creative process \u2013 as well as becoming an unwilling \u201ccelebrity fugitive\u201d and spokesman for free speech after the publication of The Satanic Verses.\xa0 In these wide-ranging, funny, and thoughtful conversations, he also touches on The Marx Brothers, Kurt Vonnegut, Bollywood, the Wizard of Oz, baseball, and his chance encounters with Donald Trump.