Cornell University
 
Cornell Chronicle Online
 
Complete Article at the following URL:
  http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct07/Rushdie.cover.gl.html 
 
Oct. 23, 2007
 
Bombs, bands and birds recalled as novelist
Salman Rushdie trips down memory lane
 
By George Lowery
 
Novelist Salman Rushdie knew how to win over the standing-room-only audience in Uris Auditorium Oct. 18: By paying tribute to Cornell writers. First he described himself as a "Pynchonista," having dined (once) with Thomas Pynchon '59. Then he said he reveres Vladimir Nabokov "and one can only hope to be worthy of his shade."
Salman Rushdie chats with Molly Hite
Lindsay France/University Photography
Salman Rushdie chats with English chair Molly Hite before taking the Uris Auditorium stage.

 
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The Creative Writing Reading Series is sponsored by two anonymous Cornell alumni. The next event features William Kennedy, Nov. 1 at 7:30 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium.
 
 

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