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Dad, Where’s My Book?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Salman Rushdie has been busy since arriving at Emory University last spring for a five-year stint as writer-in-residence. In addition to teaching, leading a graduate seminar and participating in undergraduate classes, he wrote a large chunk of his forthcoming novel, “The Enchantress of Florence,” at the university, Rushdie said during a symposium at Emory last week.
As if that’s not enough, his young son has been agitating for his book, Rushdie said. “This year, the thing I’m starting is a children’s book,” he said. “I began writing a children’s book 18 years ago for my son who’s now 28,” referring to “Haroun and the Sea of Stories,” an adventure tale about a great storyteller who loses his skill, which Rushdie wrote for his son, Zafar, by his first marriage. “Now I have another 10-year-old son who’s asking ‘Where’s my book?”
Part of Rushdie’s deal with Emory is that he give one public lecture a year. His second one will be this Sunday, Feb. 10, in the Glenn Memorial Auditorium, 1652 N. Decatur Rd. on Emory’s main campus. Tickets are $10 and are available online. The subject is “Autobiography and the Novel.”
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