Best Of: Salman Rushdie's Survival / A New Kind Of Whodunit

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🗓️ 20 April 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Writer Salman Rushdie talks about the knife attack that nearly killed him — and his life since then. In 2022, he was onstage at a literary event when the assailant ran up from the audience, and stabbed him 14 times. His new book is called Knife.

Also, Diarra Kilpatrick talks about writing and starring in the new series, Diarra From Detroit, a dark comedy about a public school teacher who is ghosted by a Tinder date and, in her quest to find out why, investigates a decades-old mystery that takes her into the underbelly of Detroit.

Ken Tucker reviews Tierra Whack's new album World Wide Whack.

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0:17.0	From W H y y in Philadelphia I'm Terry Gross with Fresh Air Weekend.
0:22.0	Today's Salomon Salmon Rushty on the knife attack that
0:26.0	nearly killed him and his life since then. He was on stage two years ago when
0:31.0	the assailant ran up from the audience and stabbed Rushty 14 times,
0:36.0	blinding him in one eye.
0:38.0	It was 33 years after Iran's Ayatollah Komeni called for Rushty's death as punishment for writing the novel
0:44.9	The Satanic Verses. Rushty's new memoir is called Knife. Also Diara Kilpatrick
0:51.6	talks about writing and starring in the new series, Diara from Detroit,
0:56.0	a dark comedy about a public school teacher who's ghosted by a tinder date,
1:00.0	and in her quest to find out why, investigates a decades old mystery that takes her into
1:05.8	the underbelly of Detroit.
1:08.2	And Kent Tucker reviews Tierra Wax new album.
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