{"id":1063,"date":"2009-10-27T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T17:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/10\/salman-rushdie-vs-los-angeles.html"},"modified":"2009-10-27T10:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T17:40:00","slug":"salman-rushdie-vs-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/10\/salman-rushdie-vs-los-angeles.html","title":{"rendered":"Salman Rushdie vs. Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

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WHEN i agreed to hang out with novelist salman rushdie<\/a> in and around hollywood for a few hours, i would not have been surprised to find myself embroiled in a discussion about george harrison’s facility for the sitar, or to be shown the very drugstore where an acid-tripping aldous huxley encountered “the doors of perception.” but i did not expect to get into a hilarious story about “starsky and hutch.”<\/p>\n

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that’s part of what i like about reading rushdie as well — you never quite know where his work is going to swerve, but most of the time his excursions reinforce rather than undercut his literary personality. here<\/a> is that piece, by the way, which is about the most fun i’ve had on a literary story. and i am very glad neither of us got shot, which looked for a minute like it was about to happen.<\/div>\n
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a few days ago i visited a new exhibit at the los angeles county museum of art dedicated to comics from india<\/a> — more on that in a future post. but the show made me think of rushdie and his wild mixing of ancient and pop-contemporary, especially in books like “midnight’s children<\/a>” (a book i read in a kind of fever it was so good) and his last novel “the enchantress of florence.”<\/div>\n
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these days, i hear from his publicist, rushdie is completing a new novel and the script to a “midnight’s children” film. since his books — as he discusses in our interview — were so profoundly effected by movies, especially bollywood and “the wizard of oz” — this project could appealingly close the circle.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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