Last night, Sir Salman appeared on The Colbert Report to discuss his new book The Enchantress of Florence and his bit-part in the movie And Then She Found Me.
Given the fact that the book seems written in a post-Padma haze of vituperation, the following exchange was particularly funny:
Colbert: “I bet the women just fall at your feet.”
Rushdie: ” I wouldn’t bet against it.”
Here’s Rushdie on the “lotions and potions” women use, why the fatwa made him feel like Tippi Hedren, why video games and YouTube will change the world (“when people see what garbage everyone else is consuming, they want it too”) and why playing Helen Hunt’s gynecologist appealed to him:
Previous SM Rushdie coverage.
