Salman Rushdie

[Keith Davis]

Satanic Verses is another of those books I had yet to read. So glad I did!
Next is Gatsby. (I know, almost shameful). I'm determined to get to
Finnegan's Wake this year, too.

When the Mad Duck thing came up, I was resistant, cuz I have these huge
stacks of unread books, great books(!), including lots of Faulkner,
Smilla's Snow, Delillo, Capote, Orphan Master, Naked and Dead, (and I've
already read M&D twice), but after about two pages, I was marveling yet
again at the wizardry of our resident anti-saint, Mr. P.

Quack on...

On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 8:33 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> I used to see him waiting for publishing folks on the ground floor of
> the Flatiron Building where I worked. He was without Secret Service
> but not yet "out". Then, years later when he was touring on his own
> again, he filled the 4th floor upstairs of the Union Square B &N...(he
> phoned this talk in that night, I have to say)..I watched the
> autograph line for awhile, it was dwindling down...and I moseyed down
> those three long, long escalators and walked outside, turned right and
> almost bumped into him catching up with Pashma (?) on the sidewalk.,
> just another couple in Union Square. Like a time-slip, strange,  but
> he had obviously come down a service elevator and come out a back
> door. it was not long before they parted as a couple.
>
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 8:25 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Funny, my brother says his favorite is Shalimar. I'm looking forward to
> all of it.
> >
> > Happy New Year to all. I'm fortunate to be associated with a crew as
> sick as ya'll!
> > (Yes, I said ya'll. At least I didn't say "all a ya'll ").
> >
> > Love always,
> >
> > Bob
> >
> >
> > Www.innergroovemusic.com
> >
> >> On Jan 11, 2015, at 6:30 PM, Becky Lindroos <bekker2 at icloud.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Omg - yes!  Imo,  that's his best best work.  "Midnight's Children" is
> close,  but it's kind of harder in ways.  That said,  it won the Man Booker
> (1981),  the Booker of Bookers (1993), and the Best of the Bookers (2008).
> >>
> >> The Moor's Last Sigh" was good,  but "Fury," "Shame," and "The Ground
> Beneath Her Feet," were stupid. "Shalimar the Clown" was okay.  I rather
> enjoyed "The Enchantress of Florence," although I am likely a minority.
> Never read Grimus - the only novel by Rushdie I haven't read.  His
> biography is pretty interesting although in places it sounds like a tribute
> to those who helped him in the fatwa and a trashing of those who didn't.
> >>
> >> Bek
> >> babbling
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Jan 11, 2015, at 2:58 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Just finished reading The Satanic Verses. What a killer book! ;-) Look
> forward to more Rushdie.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Www.innergroovemusic.com-
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> >>
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>



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