The New School for Social Research welcomes acclaimed author Salman Rushdie as he delivers his talk, "Blasphemy Is a Victimless Crime," and joins a conversation with Luis Jaramillo, Assistant Professor of Writing.
On the talk title, Rushdie says: "This phrase was written on a T-shirt I was sent by an anonymous well-wisher during the furor over The Satanic Verses. Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy, because there’s nothing to blaspheme against. There are, of course, people who would disagree with this view."
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The William Phillips Lecture was established in 2006 to further the legacy of William Phillips, co-founder of Partisan Review, a journal committed to freedom of thought in literature, to creative expression, and to serious, open debate. Launched in 1934, Partisan Review functioned as a vital literary bridge between the United States and Europe, as its authors included major progressive thinkers and writers from both sides of the Atlantic, such as Thomas Mann, Hannah Arendt, James Baldwin, George Orwell, Vladimir Nabokov, Samuel Beckett, Jean-Paul Sartre, Czesław Miłosz, William Styron, Philip Roth, and Susan Sontag. The annual lecture series was founded by the late Edith Kurzweil, an editor of Partisan Review, a graduate of The New School for Social Research (PhD, Sociology), and William Phillips’ wife
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Salman Rushdie is the author of 22 books, including Midnight’s Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), Shame, The Satanic Verses, The Moor’s Last Sigh, and Quichotte, all of which have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize; a collection of stories, East, West; a memoir, Joseph Anton; a work of reportage, The Jaguar Smile; and three collections of essays, including Languages of Truth.
Luis Jaramillo is the author of The Doctor’s Wife, winner of the Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Contest, an Oprah Book of the Week, and one of NPR’s Best Books of 2012. Luis’s fiction and nonfiction has also appeared in Lit Hub, Tin House, and Poets & Writers, among other publications. He teaches courses in fiction and nonfiction in the MFA Creative Writing Program at The New School.
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