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Salman Rushdie recently turned up at a McNally Johnson bookstore near South Street Seaport in Manhattan. “It’s actually not particularly close to where I live, but I come here a lot,” he said. He was browsing for his own books. His newest one, “The Eleventh Hour,” is his 23rd – a collection of short stories…

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“The Eleventh Hour,” a collection of short stories and a novella, is the first fiction Salman Rushdie has published since the 2022 attack that nearly killed him. He talks with Martha Teichner about his new book; the fatwa issued by Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989, claiming passages in Rushdie’s novel, “The Satanic Verses,” insulted Islam; his…

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Book excerpt:

Book excerpt:

Random House We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. “The Eleventh Hour: A Quintet of Stories” (to be published Tuesday by Random House) is acclaimed novelist Salman Rushie’s elegiac new collection of stories – his first fiction since a 2022 attack that nearly killed him – in which he…

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