Episode · The Book Review · 2024-10-18
Salman Rushdie on The Book Review: books mentioned
The Ezra Klein Show: Salman Rushdie
Ezra Klein discussed The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie, Knife by Salman Rushdie, The Shadow by Hans Christian Andersen, and White Teeth by Zadie Smith. Salman Rushdie recommended DON QUIXOTE by Miguel de Cervantes, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, The Trial by Franz Kafka, and The Castle by Franz Kafka, and discussed Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Satanic Verses
Discussed“he just sat in my Consciousness as the author of this Eerie sounding novel called The Satanic Verses a novel so somehow dangerous he had to go into hiding”
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Knife
Discussed“and his latest book knife is about the attack it's about his life it's about his marriage”
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The Shadow
Discussed“I want to begin with a story you mention a little bit offhandedly in the book which is this story about the Shadow by Hans Christian Anderson”
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Midnight's Children
Discussed“because it began in 1981 with the publication and success of midnight children which was important to me for a number of reasons first of all because”
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White Teeth
Discussed“it reminded me as a book more than anything else as I read it of white teeth by Zade Smith”
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DON QUIXOTE
Recommended“so I would recommend Don kote for many people the first great Masterpiece in the novel form and for many people the greatest especially also because there's now a wonderful new translation of it by Edith Gman”
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Recommended“I mean I will have to say because I think it's the greatest novel of the last however long 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and please read the book rather than watch the Netflix version”
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The Trial
Recommended“I mean I think you know of the three great masters of the 20th century Joyce Bru and kfka we live in kafka's world you know so I would probably say the trial or the castle or both of them”
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The Castle
Recommended“I mean I think you know of the three great masters of the 20th century Joyce Bru and kfka we live in kafka's world you know so I would probably say the trial or the castle or both of them”
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Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Knife
“when he spoke to Salmon rushy upon the release of his Memoir knife meditations after an attempted murder Rush's book is one of the five non-fiction nominees”
Passing Midnight's Children
“I wrote about it in Midnight's Children I wrote about it in shalomar the clown”
Passing Shalimar The Clown
“I wrote about it in Midnight's Children I wrote about it in shalomar the clown”
Passing Joseph Anton
“you've written a sort of autobiography before a memoir called Joseph Anton which you did in the third person”