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Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Salman and his baseball bat
The Sun reports that Salman Rushdie recently lost his cool at a journalist who had earlier written that Padma Lakshmi, Rushdie's wife, stood "for a love of money and commodity". Rushdie apparently told the reporter:
And no, it wasn't Patrick French, with whom he had that juicy literary spat I'd written about yesterday, but some fellow called Guy Trebay. Salman's not in a particularly good mood these days, is he? Maybe he's upset at being left out of the Booker international shortlist.
If you ever write mean things about my wife again, I’ll come after you with a baseball bat.
And no, it wasn't Patrick French, with whom he had that juicy literary spat I'd written about yesterday, but some fellow called Guy Trebay. Salman's not in a particularly good mood these days, is he? Maybe he's upset at being left out of the Booker international shortlist.
