Salman Rushdie's new book is his first fiction since a brutal attack. He tells us why

NEW YORK — Salman Rushdie's new book, his 23rd, is also a resetting of his career.

In The Eleventh Hour, Salman Rushdie writes like he’s running out of time

For readers new to Rushdie, The Musician of Kahani is the story to read first. Ranging over several decades, its young female ...

How a Mid-Career Shift Into Screenwriting Helped Inspire Aja Gabel’s New Novel

The author wrote her second book 'The Lightbreakers' while working in the writers room for shows like 'The Staircase' and ...

After stabbing attack, Salman Rushdie’s new stories grapple with mortality and magical realism

Rushdie's new story collection, 'The Eleventh Hour,' explores mortality through five inventive stories blending realism and magic. It's a moving work from a writer embracing his 'second-chance life.' ...
Roger Ebert

Short Films in Focus: 24 Hours After Reading Tuesdays With Morrie (with Scott Tinkham)

In it, a man finishes the last few pages of Mitch Albom’s much-celebrated book “Tuesdays With Morrie.” He turns the last page ...

Poet Kate Baer explores the beauty and tension of mid life in 'How About Now'

NPR's Scott Detrow sat down with poet Kate Baer at Midtown Scholar, a bookstore in Harrisburg, Penn., to talk about her new book of poetry, How About Now.