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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
In addition to those journals and institutions already acknowledged during the course of this book, I must particularly thank Gloria B. Anderson and her team at The New York Times, who syndicated all the columns collected in Part III; and The New Yorker, where nine of these pieces first appeared in print: “Out of Kansas” (also published as a British Film Institute booklet, “The Wizard of Oz”); “In Defense of the Novel, Yet Again”; “Reservoir Frogs”; “Heavy Threads”; “On Leavened Bread”; “Crash”; “The People’s Game”; “Damme, This Is the Oriental Scene for You!”; and “A Dream of Glorious Return.” “Step Across This Line” was written for, and first delivered as, the 2002 Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Yale. “In the Voodoo Lounge” originally appeared in The Observer, and “U2” was first published in the Sunday Times. “The Best of Young British Novelists” and “Beirut Blues” appeared in The Independent on Sunday. “On Being Photographed” appeared (in French translation) in EgoÏste. Many thanks to Richard Avedon and to Nicole Wisniak, publisher and editor of EgoÏste, for allowing the Avedon portrait of me to be reproduced in this book. And to Article 19, especially Frances D'Souza and Carmel Bedford, who led the Rushdie Defence Campaign; to all those who participated in the Rushdie Defence Committees in various countries, to all those writers, publishers, booksellers, readers, politicians, diplomats, security officers, and well-wishers who joined us in the struggle, I offer deeper gratitude than I have words to express.
S.R.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
SALMAN RUSHDIE is the author of eight novels: Grimus, Midnight’s Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the “Booker of Bookers”), Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Moor’s Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, and Fury, and one work of short stories, East, West. He has also published four works of nonfiction: The Jaguar Smile, Imaginary Homelands, The Wizard of Oz, and Mirrorwork.
ALSO BY SALMAN RUSHDIE
FICTION
Grimus
Midnight’s Children
Shame
The Satanic Verses
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
East, West
The Moor’s Last Sigh
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Fury
NONFICTION
The Jaguar Smile
Imaginary Homelands
SCREENPLAY
Midnight’s Children
PLAYS
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
(with Tim Supple and David Tushingham)
Midnight’s Children
(with Tim Supple and Simon Reade)
ANTHOLOGY
Mirrorwork
(co-editor)
Copyright © 2002 Salman Rushdie
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rushdie, Salman.
Step across this line: collected nonfiction 1992–2002 / Salman Rushdie.
p. cm.
I. Title.
PR6068.U757 S74 2002 824′.914—dc21 2002021314
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eISBN: 978-1-58836-279-7
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