115. Salman Rushdie (writer) – A Permeable Frontier

Think Again - a Big Think Podcast

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🗓️ 9 September 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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In this episode, the first one with a repeat guest since the show was launched (Henry Rollins was one taping split into two episodes) author Salman Rushdie and host Jason Gots discuss New York City, the surrealism of everyday life, comic books, and much, much, more in this, Big Think's latest brain-fertilizing podcast. Salman Rushdie is the author of twelve previous novels and four books of nonfiction, including Joseph Anton, Midnight’s Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), Shame, The Satanic Verses, and Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights which we discussed two years ago on this show. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. His kaleidoscopic, funny, philosophical new novel The Golden House has been called a “return to realism” but maybe only because the present-day American realities it draws upon and reimagines are so indistinguishable from fantasy. About Think Again: Since 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from creative and curious minds. Since 2015, the Think Again podcast has been taking us out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected conversation starters from Big Think’s interview archives. Surprise conversation starter interview clips in this episode: Richard Dawkins on religion and anti-science, Ariel Levy on "having it all" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Huh, have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like?
0:04.3	Not much to it, is there?
0:06.2	Unless, of course, it's a Walker's sandwich.
0:10.9	Mmm, that is good.
0:12.9	Now that's what Asani should sound like.
0:15.8	Go all crisp in with walkers.
0:19.0	Delicious.
0:19.6	Hey there, I'm Jason Gatz and you you're listening to Think Again, a Big Think
0:23.4	podcast.
0:29.1	Started in 2008, Big Think is a kind of online think tank of big ideas from some of the
0:34.7	most creative thinkers on the planet.
0:36.7	On the Think Again podcast, we revisit these ideas in new and unpredictable ways.
0:40.3	Our producers surprise me and my guests with short interview clips from Big Things Archives,
0:45.3	ideas that we didn't come here expecting to discuss.
0:48.3	I am very, very happy to be here today with author Salman Rushdie.
0:52.3	He's the author of 12 previous novels and four
0:56.1	books of nonfiction, including Joseph Anton, Midnight's Children, that's fiction, for which he won
1:02.8	the Booker Prize and the best of the Booker, shame the Satanic Verses, and two years, eight
1:08.8	months, and 28 nights, which we discussed two years ago on this show.
1:13.3	He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a distinguished writer in residence
1:17.1	at New York University.
1:18.7	His kaleidoscopic, funny philosophical new novel, The Golden House, has been called a return
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