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A special interview with Salman Rushdie

Year: 1992

Names: Rabinovitch, Sandra, Rushdie, Salman, Wachtel, Eleanor

Description:

The British author Salman Rushdie was in Canada for the first time since he was sentenced to death almost four years ago for writing The Satanic Verses. Rushide talks about his life, faith, and writing.

Part of: Writers & Company

Type: Sound recording non-musical

Alice Hoffman on Practical Magic, and John Berger reads "Mother"

Year: 1996

Names: Berger, John, Hoffman, Alice, McIlveen, Nancy, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor

Description:

Part I: The popular American novelist Alice Hoffman - she brings magic realism to suburbia and passion to the everyday in her new novel Practical Magic. Part II: In honour of Mother's Day, John Berger reads "Mother" from his collection Keeping a Rendezvous.

Part of: Writers & Company

Type: Sound recording non-musical