Up now on SALMAN'S SEA OF STORIES... The Seventh Wave. Episode 48., by
Salman Rushdie
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In the immortal words of Popeye the Sailor Man: I yam what I yam and that's all that I yam.
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Up now at SALMAN'S SEA OF STORIES! The Seventh Wave. Episode 47, by
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It’s one of the stories in my collection EAST, WEST
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@SalmanRushdie where can I read At the auction of the Ruby Slippers. Where?
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"We can stand in solidarity with our fellows on the front lines and magnify their voices by adding our own. Above all we must understand that stories are at the heart of what’s happening."
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"We are not helpless. Even after Orpheus was torn to pieces, his severed head, floating down the river Hebrus, went on singing, reminding us that song is stronger than death. We can sing the truth and name the liars."
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"It has been said that the powerful may own the present but writers own the future, for it is through our work—or the best of it, at least, the work that endures—that the present misdeeds of the powerful will be judged...
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"...If we turn away from posterity and pay attention to this dreadful moment, what can we usefully or effectively do? A poem will not stop a bullet. A novel cannot defuse a bomb. Not all satirists are heroes."
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That would be great.
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Summer Holiday read number one
#BookTwitter Who's read this? Thoughts? Crying out for a @GhibliUSA adaptation, I reckon. Thanks @SalmanRushdie, loved it.
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I’ll be talking to Mexican readers and friends on Thursday evening, online…
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Llega a #GDLCapitalMundialDelLibro @SalmanRushdie
para charlar con las y los lectores en una conferencia magistral online.
La cita es este jueves 28 de julio en punto de las 19 horas a través de una transmisión especial por Facebook Live de @GDLCapitalBook.
#GDLEE
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A double helping this week! The Seventh Wave. Episodes 45, 46., by
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"We are engaged in a war of narratives and we need to learn how to fight it. A tyrant has arisen in Russia and brutality engulfs Ukraine, whose people, led by a satirist turned hero, offer heroic resistance and are already creating a legend of freedom...
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"...The tyrant creates false narratives to justify his assault—the Ukrainians are Nazis and Russia is menaced by Western conspiracies. He seeks to brainwash his own citizens with such lies."
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The Seventh Wave, Episode 44 on Salman's Sea of Stories
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Episode 43 of THE SEVENTH WAVE is up now on SALMAN'S SEA OF STORIES.
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No it isn’t.
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Replying to @aditya_kondawar
Midnight's Children by @SalmanRushdie
It is an autobiography told as a novel
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Today's top story:
@JonathanCape has unveiled a new novel by @SalmanRushdie - coming next February, Victory City 'is an epic tale with a message for us all: our power is fleeting, but our stories last forever'
bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article-d (£)
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Nothing to do with substack. Will decide later what to do with that story.
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Replying to @vintagebooks and @SalmanRushdie
Is this the same book that has been serialised on Substack? Or will that be published separately?
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Here’s the UK cover!
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We’re thrilled to be publishing the upcoming novel from @SalmanRushdie, Victory City, which features an unforgettable heroine battling a patriarchal world and celebrates the power of storytelling. Coming in February 2023! 
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A bit of news: Jonathan Cape lands Rushdie’s new novel Victory City
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THE SEVENTH WAVE is back after a week's vacation. Episode 42 up now on SALMAN'S SEA OF STORIES.
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Replying to @chhabs and @SalmanRushdie
I add my wishes @SalmanRushdie !
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Beautiful work Susie!@LookUpYoga !
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Starting the celebration by admiring the glory that is Susie’s annotated WAKE:
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Happy BLOOMSDAY!
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Please join our marvelous #Bloomsyear readers for the first 8 episodes: bit.ly/39pWvRb
Special thanks to @alisonfraser @SalmanRushdie @stephenfry @OliverJeffers @AedinMoloney! Watch this space for more banners and reader connex! #Bloomsday #Ulysses100 #Bloomsday2022
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Episode 41 of THE SEVENTH WAVE is up now - free to read this week - on SALMAN'S SEA OF STORIES.
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“Now he is the dispenser of nuance-free certitudes, and becomes more vain with every passing day.”
No better analysis of the state of our language, and politics, than this short fiction piece from .
From “The Old Man in the Piazza.”
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#FromTheArchive: "Reality is now an argument. And sometimes it becomes a violent argument. So I don’t think you can write realism in the way that people used to because of this problem about consensus." —, September/October 2017 at.pw.org/2fIZxDQ
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Episode 40 of THE SEVENTH WAVE is up now on SALMAN'S SEA OF STORIES. Only 9 episodes to go after this one...
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, ‘Companion of Honour’ How fab is that? Many congrats dear friend.
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Thank you, and congratulations to you and to Geetanjali Shree!
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My husband has pointed out that I never actually name @SalmanRushdie in the piece. This is not because he is #hewhomustnotbenamed, but rather because he is #hewhorequiresnointroduction 
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Actor Damian Lewis, broadcaster Clare Balding and designer Stella McCartney among those honoured by Queen on eve of Jubilee celebrations
bbc.in/3M9ot0Z
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Famous faces on Queen’s Birthday Honours list chosen to reflect Platinum Jubilee
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So fucking ignorant.
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Replying to @pen_int @SalmanRushdie and 2 others
Time can change at anytime, just like you fabricated the satanic verses, now in Hiding for almost 2 decades. The verses you read out are dedicated to your self, as you conflicted a war upon your self. 


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Well… Midnight’s Children was published in 1981, Forrest Gump (novel) in 1986 and (movie) in 1994, so maybe Gump is the american M’s C?
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Uhm @ShaunakSA just enlightened me that Midnights Children by @SalmanRushdie is the Desi Forrest Gump and I don't know how to feel about this.
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Episode 39 of THE SEVENTH WAVE is up now at SALMAN'S SEA OF STORIES. This one's free to read.
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Hear prominent writer, read a quote by Ukrainian philosopher, writer, and journalist Volodymyr Yermolenko. Quotes on War is a collection of quotes by Ukrainian writers responding to the invasion of #Ukraine. Read: pen-international.org/news/quotes-on
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Episode 38 of The Seventh Wave is up now on SALMAN'S SEA OF STORIES.
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Here I am reading a bit of Ulysses, along with others reading other bits, to celebrate this centennial year of the great book.
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