![]() “You can’t let intimidation stop books,” King now says, recalling the episode. Dalton and gave him an ultimatum: “You don’t sell The Satanic Verses, you don’t sell Stephen King.” The store reversed course. At the behest of two Viking editors, King called the chief of bookstore chain B. announced plans not to sell the book or to remove it from their shelves. ![]() at the various roles John Cleese has played throughout his acting career. Stephen King went so far as to intervene on Rushdie’s behalf when a number of bookstores in the U.S. his father being an insurance salesman but he was nonetheless sent off to. In total, Elie writes, more than 60 people died in the controversy. Act 2: Scene 11 to 14 - Let get you up to speed on key information and facts on Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. the book’s Japanese translator was shot and killed, its Italian translator was stabbed, its Turkish translator was attacked, its Norwegian publisher was shot, and two clerics in Saudi Arabia and Tunisia who spoke out against the fatwa were shot and killed. and American publishers, about how the prophetic and provocative book made its author a hunted man and unleashed a fury around the world. HAPPY: No kidding LINDA: I know and sure enough, on the bottom of the water heater there’s a new little nipple on the gas pipe. ![]() Doctorow, Gay Talese, and Martin Amis, as well as editors from Viking and Penguin, the book’s respective U.K. Twenty-five years after Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against Salman Rushdie for writing The Satanic Verses, Vanity Fair writer Paul Elie hears from Rushdie himself and authors including Stephen King, Ian McEwan, E. ![]()
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