From: Jezzaroona
Category: Amis's Contemporaries
Date: 9/5/99
Time: 5:39:48 PM
Remote Name: 195.44.5.79
In the UK, there is a yearly "address" (official/public/open lecture) on a literary theme (I can't remember the name of the lecture: it's something like "The Humphrey Lyttlestone Address").
One year, during his "exile", Salman Rushdie "gave" the address, Harold Pinter being the bod who actually appeared on TV to read it out. There was some important stuff about how writing/fiction's moral/political intrusiveness into our lives takes the form of a "sublime" operation (my clumsy wording); how in, terms of resources, it only takes a pencil and a flat surface etc etc.
I can't find online this *anywhere* or any good Rushdie interviews. So any leads would be welcome. Also: if anyone owns a copy of Rushdie's "In Good Faith" (Essay in defence of *The Satanic Verses*) or *Imaginary Homelands*, and is swot up, could they spare some *love*?