Salman Rushdie
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Actually, one of the nice things about this is there isn't.
We're enormously supportive of each other's work.
Yeah, it was a last-minute decision.
We were actually on the plane flying up to it, because I had this desire to go and revisit the scene of the crime and show myself that I was standing up where I fell down.
Right.
You know, sort of important for me.
But then on the flight up there, I thought,
Chautauqua is a really small town, and if he's in the county jail, how far is that from the institution?
And it turned out it was like a five-minute drive.
So I thought, well, let's go to the jail.
You get there, it's a really boring jail.
It's a little cell block and a wall with some barbed wire.
But I thought, you know, he's in there, I'm out here.
That feels good.
You win.
And what happened is a weird thing happened.
My feet started dancing.
You were dancing?
No, my feet were dancing.
Well, I thought, you know, you've got to give the enemy an even break.