![]() ![]() “It makes me out to be some sort of ridiculous party animal,” he said of these stories. To be under the microscope not for what you write but for the way you live. This is a strange way for a distinguished man of letters to be living. “From Exile to Everywhere,” the headline ran. Even the august New York Times recently got into the act, recounting his seemingly nonstop appearances at Manhattan galleries and the various beauties in his orbit. “I’m not inclined to magnify this ugly bit of headline grabbing by paying it much attention,” he said via his publisher.ĭeath sentences aside, today Rushdie lives in another kind of bubble: the one where the tabloids turn your life into a kind of running joke. “Because for a long time they had this image of me as sealed away from life.”Īfter my interview with him, in the wake of rioting provoked by an anti-Islamic video, an Iranian foundation reportedly announced an increase in its reward for Rushdie’s murder. “People think, ‘How odd it is that he goes out,’” Rushdie said. His only protection at the London Hotel comes from an earnest young man in a blazer with a name tag that reads SECURITY. When I meet him he’s in Los Angeles to see television people and is on his way to the Telluride Film Festival. ![]() Now his clandestine life is a distant memory. ![]()
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