From Cafe and the Vox Media Podcast Network, welcome to Stay Tuned.

I'm Pete Barara.

I don't think an editor is duty bound to publish everything that crosses his or her desk for whatever reason.

But I think when it comes to something like the satanic verses,

if we are in a situation where a novel like that of that kind of daring is not getting published,

then that's a very, very sad state of affairs.

That's David Remnick.

Since 1998, he's been the editor of the New Yorker magazine.

Remnick has won praise for steering the storied publication into the modern era.

What was once a weekly print magazine has become a sprawling online brand

with podcasts, videos, and daily reporting.

Remnick hosts one of those podcasts, The New Yorker Radio Hour.

Every so often, Remnick returns to his roots and writes a long form article for the magazine.

And this week, he's out with a profile of the novelist, Salman Rushdie,

who last year was stabbed 15 times and nearly killed while on stage at a conference in New York State.

Remnick joins me to discuss the unusual circumstances that led to that attack.

And we talk more broadly about the value of free speech and the price that Rushdie has paid for exercising it.

That's coming up. Stay tuned.

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