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100 1  Rushdie, Salman 
245 10 Languages of truth :|bessays 2003-2020 /|cSalman Rushdie. 
250    1st ed. 
260    New York :|bRandom House,|c[2021]. 
300    xi, 356 p. ;|c25 cm. 
500    KH-AUL-8. 
505 0  Part One -- Wonder Tales -- Proteus -- Heraclitus -- 
       Another Writer's Beginnings -- Part Two -- Philip Roth -- 
       Kurt Vonnegut and Slaughterhouse-Five -- Samuel Beckett's 
       Novels -- Cervantes and Shakespeare -- Gabo and I -- 
       Harold Pinter -- Paris Review, The Art of Fiction, Vol. IV
       -- Autobiography and the Novel -- Adaptation -- Notes on 
       Sloth -- Hans Christian Andersen -- David Remnick's King 
       of the World -- Very Well Then, I Contradict Myself -- 
       Part Three -- Truth -- Courage -- Texts for PEN -- 
       Christopher Hitchens -- The Liberty Instinct -- Osama Bin 
       Laden -- Ai Weiwei and Others -- The Half-Woman God -- 
       Nova Southeastern University Commencement Address 2006 -- 
       Emory University Commencement Address 2015 -- Part Four --
       The Composite Artist: the Emperor Akbar and the Making of 
       the Hamzanama -- Amrita Sher-Gil: Letters -- Bhupen 
       Khakhar (1934-2003) -- Being Francesco Clemente: Self-
       Portraits at the Gagosian Gallery, London, 2005 -- Taryn 
       Simon: An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar at 
       the Whitney Museum, New York, 2007 -- Kara Walker at the 
       Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2009 -- Sebastião Salgado -- 
       The Unbeliever's Christmas -- Carrie Fisher -- Pandemic: A
       Personal Engagement with the Coronavirus -- The Proust 
       Questionnaire: Vanity Fair. 
520    "Salman Rushdie is celebrated as a storyteller of the 
       highest order, illuminating deep truths about our society 
       and culture through his gorgeous, often searing, prose. 
       Now, in his latest collection of nonfiction, he brings 
       together insightful and inspiring essays, criticism, and 
       speeches that focus on his relationship with the written 
       word, and solidify his place as one of the most original 
       thinkers of our time. Gathering pieces written between 
       2003 and 2019, Languages of Truth chronicles Rushdie's own
       intellectual engagement with a period of momentous 
       cultural shifts. Immersing the reader in a wide variety of
       subjects, he delves into the nature of storytelling as a 
       deeply human need, and what emerges is, in myriad ways, a 
       love letter to literature itself. Rushdie explores what 
       the work of authors from Shakespeare and Cervantes to 
       Samuel Beckett, Eudora Welty, and Toni Morrison mean to 
       him, often by telling vivid, sometimes humorous stories of
       his own personal encounters with them, whether on the page
       or in person. He delves deeper than ever before into the 
       nature of "truth," revels in the vibrant malleability of 
       language, and the creative lines that can join art and 
       life, and he looks anew at migration, multiculturalism and
       censorship. The ideas, true stories and arguments 
       presented here are at once revelatory, funny and eye-
       opening, enlivened on every page by Rushdie's signature 
       wit and dazzling voice, making this volume a genuine 
       pleasure to read"--|cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 English fiction|y21st century