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Salman Rushdie’s ‘Knife’ recounts his stabbing. His press tour has its own revelations

Salman Rushdie isn’t limiting himself to just his new memoir to recount the 2022 stabbing attack that nearly killed him. Ahead of the release of his newest memoir, “Knife,” the “Satanic Verses” author has returned to the media spotlight, recounting some gruesome details of his near-death experience and how he seeks to take “the power back.” On Aug. 12, 2022, Rushdie appeared at the Chautauqua ...
**Austria OUT** British author Salman Rushdie speaks as he presents his book "Quichotte" at the Volkstheater in Vienna, Austria, on Nov. 16, 2019.

Salman Rushdie isn’t limiting himself to just his new memoir to recount the 2022 stabbing attack that nearly killed him.

Ahead of the release of his newest memoir, “Knife,” the “Satanic Verses” author has returned to the media spotlight, recounting some gruesome details of his near-death experience and how he seeks to take “the power back.”

On Aug. 12, 2022, Rushdie appeared at the Chautauqua Institution in New York,

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