I saw Salman Rushdie in a public appearance in Marin last
week. He’s just published an account of his 12-1/2 years in hiding, following
the condemnation of his novel, The
Satanic Verses, in 1989 by Muslim extremists and a death sentence handed
down by the Ayatollah Khomeini.


The new book is called Joseph
Anton, the title coming from the code name used for him by the British
Secret