About the Book: Knife : Meditations After An Attempted Murder
On the morning of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the
Chautauqua Institution, preparing to give a lecture on the importance of keeping
writers safe from harm, when a man wearing black clothes and a black mask rushed
down the aisle toward him, wielding a knife. His first thought: So it’s you.
Here you are.
What followed was a horrific act of violence that shook the literary world and
beyond. Now, for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, Rushdie relives
the traumatic events of that day and its aftermath, as well as his