I was a very good friend of Michael Herr, who wrote Dispatches about Vietnam. And what he wrote about that was extraordinary. A friend of mine did a book about spending a long time with soldiers and was eventually bombed by an IED. Read More: Salman Rushdie Is on the 2023 TIME100 List My experience with reporting is that the closer you are to a violent event, the less coherent it is in the writing. I can’t say a lot about it, except that it’s my intention to do it and I’m working on it. I’m still working out exactly how it might go. For me, that’s a way of kind of taking charge of it. Whatever is published next is very likely to be a text about that. And it takes some digesting.īut one of the things I am doing is finding a way to write about what happened. As you can imagine, it’s a very terrible event in a life. You just have to talk through the obvious stuff-nightmares, all that kind of thing-and it’ll take the time it takes. I have a very good therapist who I’ve had for quite a long time and who knows me very well. But I’m getting better.Ĭan I ask about the PTSD therapy, if particular approaches were useful for you? Obviously, there was a quite a lot of PTSD. The hand that was badly damaged is recovering quite well with a lot of therapy. And that’s to say, the eye is not coming back. Do you have a notion of what recovery will look like?
I wouldn’t say I’m 100% back, but I’m on the way.
The human body has a remarkable capacity for healing. Salman Rushdie: I’m, you know, I’m getting there. But if Rushdie is less than delighted with how the fatwa has defined much of his life, he’s game enough about acknowledging the surge in public interest when, 34 years later, it nearly ended it. The acclaimed 2012 memoir was titled for the alias Rushdie used during the 10 years he spent underground after the fundamentalist leader of Iran put a $3 million bounty on his head over a few passages of his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses. And yet on the day that Rushdie, 75, spoke with me from his New York City home, it was into the camera of the laptop on which he’s pecking out what will be something of a sequel to Joseph Anton.
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