6/8/2023 0 Comments Rushdie don quichotteQuichotte, Rushdie’s 14th novel, is his third in five years, completing a kind of trilogy about “the present moment”. “So far the books keep showing up,” he says. He is expansive and self-assured with a spry sense of humour and a natural storyteller’s love of anecdote. “I’m not there yet,” he says, sitting in the boardroom of his publisher’s London offices on a broilingly hot day. Vonnegut, who was then 58, gave him a dire warning: “The day is going to come when you don’t have a book to write and you’re still going to have to write a book.” Now 72, Rushdie is happy to report that that day hasn’t arrived. Rushdie, at last a viable novelist after a decade in advertising, said that he was. “Are you serious about this writing business?” Vonnegut asked at one point. In 1981, flushed with the success of his second novel Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie spent a weekend with the American author Kurt Vonnegut.
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