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Salman Rushdie
There are a couple of examples of major authors returning this year, even from beyond the grave
It was an assault on literary free speech itself
‘The attack on Rushdie is an attack on all writers, but even more so on me, because of my prominence’
That failure to stand up for the right to publish is shocking enough
Death threats have become part of our everyday discourse rather than shocking aberrations
The illiterate cannot be allowed to dictate the rules of literature
The danger seemed to have passed but extremists continue to plague the world
Substack gives authors an opportunity to take back control of their own careers and destinies
