Salman Rushdie Interview
In The Scotsman is a nice in depth piece on former Booker Prize winner, Salman Rushdie
The friendly receptionist in the London headquarters of Random House is delighted that I’ve come to interview Salman Rushdie. “Oh, how lovely for you to get to meet someone so nice!” she says. “Such a nice man. He has signed his novels for me. I haven’t read them, though. Not quite my thing. I like Chris Ryan, you know, who writes those SAS books?”
Eight floors above, in the Random House boardroom, Rushdie is sipping takeaway coffee, and looking both professorial and profoundly amused. These days he is, as the receptionist implies, a novelist more talked about than read, a situation he is keen to reverse.
