September 13, 2002
The Domestic Verses of Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie's new place in New York is vacant but for the books stacked in columns that cover every inch of floor space in a room lined with dark library shelves from another century. It's the first time in months that the novelist's 5,000 books have been gathered in one room, at his disposal. It's evening, and he's been sorting them for nearly 12 hours, barefoot and with shirtsleeves rolled up. He's convinced that anyone he hired to do this would fail to understand his odd taxonomic
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