Salman Rushdie Shares ‘Weird Thing’ He Did Outside His Knife Attacker's Prison Cell
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Salman Rushdie Shares ‘Weird Thing’ He Did Outside His Knife Attacker's Prison Cell

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LOADING ERROR LOADING Salman Rushdie didn’t let his attacker have the last laugh — nor the last dance. The Booker Prize-winning author was famously stabbed multiple times at an event in Chautauqua, New York, in 2022 and lost the sight in his right eye, but recalled Monday on “The Daily Show” that he not only visited the attacker’s prison, but found himself “dancing” outside the man’s cell. Rushdie wrote as much in his new memoir, “Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder.” “A really interesting part of the book is … when you go back to Chautauqua … where this unfortunate event happened,” host Jon Stewart said to him. So I thought, ‘Well, let’s go to the jail!’” The 76-year-old added that the facility is “a really boring jail,” consisting of nothing but “a little cellblock and a wall with some barbed wire.” Rushdie recalled thinking it “feels good” that his attacker is “in there” while he himself is “out here,” when “a weird thing happened.” “My feet started dancing,” he told Stewart. “No, my feet were dancing,” said Rushdie, adding that his wife told him to “stop doing that.” The trial of his alleged attacker, Hadi Matar, was delayed after a New York judge ruled in January that Matar’s lawyers should be granted time to review Rushdie’s book, which was released this month.

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