Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1996 13:51:10 +0000
From: Jennifer_Mangaly-AT-BAYLOR.EDU
Subject: Re: Rushdie Excess?


     Lately,there's been this extraordinary media hype about Salman Rushdie. My 
friends who haven't even read any of his books have been spotting him everywhere 
(instead of "Where's Waldo?", it's "Where's Rushdie?".) I've never seen this 
kind of press coverage about an author since Howard Stern decided he too was 
capable of producing "literature".  (I'm expecting his next novel, "Howard's 
End" to be a best seller. Sorry, that was bad...)  The New Yorker devoted nearly 
half the magazine for a biographical sketch that was almost as long as 
"Midnight's Children."  Is Rushdie becoming the Madonna of literature?  
Overexposed?  Has this publicity blitz been instigated by greedy publishers, who 
are hoping the novel gets nominated for the Nobel Prize?  I wonder... This 
Rushdie excess is getting to me...I'm reading Narayan now for a change of a 
pace.  I am waiting for the Salman Rushdie music video...all he needs are some 
nifty sunglasses and dancing girls.  They could call it "Like an Ayatollah" 
(maybe he has a pink dress with a big bow?  And a blonde wig?).  Hmmmh...better 
not give them any ideas.

Later,
Jenny. <:



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