#standwithsalman

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Yup.

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Hedgehogs, foxes, reading and making meaning

Hedgehogs, foxes, reading and making meaning

I wrote in my last post that there may be hedgehogs and foxes in my upcoming sketchbook pages because I’m reading “The Hedgehog and the Fox” Isaiah Berlin’s famous essay about Tolstoy and history based on the Greek aphorism “The fox knows many things but the hedgehog knows one big thing” In his book Isaiah Berlin writes (I’m paraphrasing) of how history is actually created by a whole bunch of…

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Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

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This is me standing up next to @salman.rushdie , someone who completely changed the way I think of short stories. In my very first creative writing course in college, we used this book as our textbook. I had zero love for reading short stories at this time but I knew I needed to suck it up and just read them because I was being graded. Salman Rushdie was the editor for this particular edition in this series of books and something he said in his introduction caught me and really resonated with me, as a writer. Now, his intro was mostly about the structure of this book, the reasoning behind the stories selected, and some of the things he noted about them. He wrote that “The human being is a storytelling animal, or, actually, the storytelling animal, the only creature on Earth that tells itself stories in order to understand what sort of creature it is…The freedom to tell each other the stories of ourselves, to retell the stories of our culture and beliefs, is profoundly connected to the larger subject of freedom itself.” One of my favorite selections in this collection was Christine Sneed’s “Quality of Life” , a piece originally published in the New England Review. It has very sex and the city vibes and I love re-reading it with older, fresher eyes. I wish I had some of his writing on my shelf but I’ll have to find an online version to share from. #standwithsalman #shortstories #writersofinstagram #penamerica @penamerica (at West Hempstead, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChZ0nGhr5X3/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Hundreds of authors to read from Salman Rushdie’s works in show of solidarity

The ‘Stand with Salman’ event in New York mirrors a public reading of The Satanic Verses that took place after the fatwa was issued in 1989

Hundreds of writers are to gather in New York this week to read from Salman Rushdie’s works, in a recreation of an event first held after the fatwa on the author was issued in 1989.

Authors including Paul Auster, Tina Brown, Kiran Desai, Amanda Foreman, AM Homes, Siri Hustvedt, Hari Kunzru and Gay Talese will be among those taking part in the “Stand with Salman” event.

The writers will gather on the steps of the New York Public Library on Friday morning, exactly a week after 75-year-old Rushdie was stabbed during an event at the Chautauqua Institution in upstate New York.

The Indian-born British author is currently recovering in hospital. His injuries are “severe”, said his agent Andrew Wylie; he had 10 knife injuries and emerged with a damaged liver and severed nerves in an arm and an eye. In a separate statement, Rushdie’s son Zafar said the novelist was able to talk and that “his usual feisty and defiant sense of humour remains intact”.

Friday’s event is being organised by PEN America, the New York Public Library, Rushdie’s publisher Penguin Random House, and House of SpeakEasy. PEN America said those gathering would “read from selected texts from Rushdie’s body of work”.

The event will be live streamed, and PEN America is asking those unable to attend to show their support by hosting a public reading of Rushdie’s work in their own community. Social media users are encouraged to post videos reading passages of Rushdie’s work using the hashtag #StandWithSalman.