In response to the recent attack against Salman Rushie at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York, PEN America, The New York Public Library and Penguin Random House gathered today to read selected texts from Rushdie’s body of work.
The readers included Paul Auster, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Tina Brown, Kiran Desai, Andrea Elliott, Amanda Foreman, Roya Hakakian, A.M. Homes, Siri Hustvedt, Hari Kunzru, Aasif Mandvi, Colum McCann, Andrew Solomon and Gay Talese. Other partners included House of Speakeasy.
They also invited those who could not attend in person to:
- Host a public reading of Salman Rushdie’s work in their own communities.
- Post a home video reading a quick passage of Rushdie’s work, and to use #StandWithSalman and tag @PENamerica.
- Follow the live coverage of the demonstration at @PENamerica on Twitter.
Check out the recording of the event here:
