"Surviving the Unthinkable: Salman Rushdie's Journey from Stabbing to Empowerment"
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Author Salman Rushdie recounts the 27-second attack on him at a lecture in New York, expressing gratitude for the people who rushed to protect him. His new memoir, "Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder," chronicles the doctors who saved his life and his wife's role in his recovery. Rushdie describes the book as a way of "taking the power back" and plans to testify at the trial of the alleged attacker, Hadi Matar.
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