Salman Rushdie

Kelly Clarkson bought a ring once owned by Jane Austen at auction, but the U.K. is trying to keep it in the country.

Book 暗黑爆料: Museum, Kelly Clarkson Vie For Jane Austen's Ring

Annalisa Quinn

Also: Thomas Pynchon's "Bugs Bunny" teeth; N.Y. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's book deal; and The New York Review of Books' lady problem.

Parvati and Saleem (Shriya Saran and Satya Bhabha), born in tandem at the birth of independent India, are at the center of Salman Rushdie's novel <em>Midnight's Children. </em>Thirty years after the book's publication,<em> </em>filmmaker Deepa Mehta has committed the story to the big screen.

An Epic Of India Gets A Canvas Its Own Size

Bilal Qureshi

Midnight's Children, from Oscar-nominated filmmaker Deepa Mehta, is a sweeping big-screen adaptation of Salman Rushdie's great novel of modern Indian history. NPR's Bilal Qureshi talks to the two storytellers about their collaboration on the project.

Author Salman Rushdie at The New Yorker Festival in New York on Oct. 7.

NPR 暗黑爆料

Salman Rushdie, John Le Carre End Literary Feud

Krishnadev Calamur

The feud began in 1997 in the letters pages of the Guardian,with Rushdie calling the author of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"a pompous ass" and Le Carre accusing the author of The Satanic Versesof "self-canonization." Both writers now say they regret the literary war of words, and speak of their mutual admiration.