It’s readers’ willingness to tackle challenging books that allows a culture to remain open and flourishing, writes Pamela Paul.
It’s readers’ willingness to tackle challenging books that allows a culture to remain open and flourishing.
It was only when the fatwa was issued that I realized: This is the kind of trouble worth responding to. Our store manager told us that B. Dalton had resolved to continue to sell “The Satanic Verses,” the novel that had provoked the ayatollah’s fatwa. Some of my fellow employees may have not wanted anything to do with it. After all, a few bookstores in the United States had been firebombed.
Twenty-five years later, by that point working at The New York Times as the editor of the Book Review, I was having drinks with Salman Rushdie’s agent, Andrew Wylie, on the day Gabriel García Márquez died. Wylie suggested that Rushdie write an appreciation of García Márquez for the Book Review. There was no other possible answer than yes. Rushdie’s essay, which he filed the next day, needed no editing.
What is there left to say about the horrific attack on Rushdie last week at the Chautauqua Institution in New York, a place with little security because it always felt so safe? About the fact that after all these years, the act of writing fiction was punished with violence?
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