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New York (AFP) - "Knife", a memoir by Salman Rushdie released on Tuesday, recounts the near-fatal stabbing at a public event in 2022 that left him blind in one eye and his journey to healing. The Indian-born author, a British and naturalized American based in New York, has faced death threats since his 1988 novel "The Satanic Verses" was declared blasphemous by Iran's supreme leader, making Rushdie a global symbol of free speech. After going unscathed for years, a knife-wielding assailant jumped on stage at an arts gathering in rural New York state and stabbed Rushdie multiple times in the nec...
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New York (AFP) - British-American author Salman Rushdie releases his memoir "Knife" on Tuesday, recounting the harrowing experience of being stabbed at a public event in 2022 and how he overcame the near-fatal ordeal. Rushdie lost sight in one eye after the attack by a knife-wielding assailant, who jumped on stage at an arts gathering in New York state. The Indian-born author, a naturalized American based in New York, has faced death threats since his 1988 novel "The Satanic Verses" was declared blasphemous by Iran's supreme leader. In an interview with CBS's "60 Minutes" program, clips of whi...
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Washington (AFP) - The Bidens' dogs grabbed headlines with their bad behavior, but "First Feline" Willow is getting a book all to herself. First Lady Jill Biden has written a children's story about the short-haired tabby's journey from a farm in Pennsylvania to the White House in 2022. With a June publication date, "Willow the White House Cat" will come out four months before President Joe Biden faces a bitter political catfight for reelection with Donald Trump. "As Willow bounds from room to room, exploring history in her new home, she learns quickly about all of the incredible people who mak...
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Venice (AFP) - Director Wes Anderson, who presented his take on a Roald Dahl story at the Venice Film Festival on Friday, came out strongly against moves to alter the author's books for "sensitivity" reasons. Anderson received a lifetime achievement award and presented his 40-minute "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar" based on a short story by Dahl. Anderson, responding to a question, said he was strongly opposed to recent revisions of Dahl's books to remove descriptions of characters like "fat" and "crazy". "If you ask me if Renoir should be allowed to touch up one of his pictures, I'd say...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden has named a government coordinator to handle the thorny issue of book bans in schools -- one of a series of initiatives announced Thursday by the White House to support the LGBTQ community during Pride Month. "Across the country, our nation faces a spike in book bans -- efforts that disproportionately strip books about LGBTQI+ communities, communities of color, and other communities off of library and classroom shelves," the White House said. "In fact, 2022 saw the highest number of book bans in 20 years." The new coordinator, under the auspices of the...
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Miami (AFP) - A Florida school has restricted access for students to the poem "The Hill We Climb," read at President Joe Biden's inauguration before a live audience of nearly 34 million people, the poet says. Amanda Gorman, just 22 when she read her work to widespread acclaim from the Capitol steps on January 21, 2021, said in a statement late Tuesday that she was "gutted" by the move to curb her work. "Because of one parent's complaint, my inaugural poem, 'The Hill We Climb,' has been banned from an elementary school in Miami-Dade County, Florida," she posted on Twitter. "Robbing children of ...
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Washington (AFP) - Publisher Penguin Random House and the writers' group PEN America filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against a Florida school district over the removal of books from public school libraries that address race and LGBTQ issues. The book removals are unconstitutional and a violation of the First Amendment, which protects freedom of speech, according to the suit against the Escambia County School District and the school board. "Books are being ordered removed from libraries, or subject to restricted access within those libraries, based on an ideologically driven campaign to push certa...
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New York (AFP) - As people brace for the disruptive impact of artificial intelligence on jobs and everyday living, those in the world of audio books say their field is already being transformed. AI has the ability to create human-sounding recordings -- at assembly-line speed -- while bypassing at least part of the services of the human professionals who for years have made a living with their voices. Many of them are already seeing a sharp drop off in business. Tanya Eby has been a full-time voice actor and professional narrator for 20 years. She has a recording studio in her home. But in the ...
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New York (AFP) - British author Salman Rushdie said he finds it "very difficult" to write after being stabbed last year, in an interview published Monday ahead of the release of his new novel "Victory City." Rushdie, whose "epic tale" of a 14th-century woman who defies a patriarchal world to rule a city hits US shelves on Tuesday, said the attack had scarred him mentally. "There is such a thing as PTSD you know," the 75-year-old told the New Yorker magazine in his first interview since the August 12 stabbing at a conference in Chautauqua in upstate New York. "I've found it very, very difficult...
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New York (AFP) - British author Salman Rushdie has said he finds it "very difficult" to write after being stabbed in New York last year, in his first interview since the attack. Rushdie told the New Yorker, in an article published Monday, that the stabbing on stage at an event had left him with mental scars. "There is such a thing as PTSD you know," the 75-year-old said. "I've found it very, very difficult to write. I sit down to write, and nothing happens. I write, but it's a combination of blankness and junk, stuff that I write and that I delete the next day. I'm not out of that forest yet, ...
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