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In this 60 Minutes interview, Salman Rushdie speaks with Anderson Cooper about surviving an attempt on his life in 2022 and detailing the experience in his new memoir, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder (Random House, 2024).
“My desire to be a writer was entirely to do with the love of the power of the imagination, imagining worlds, creating worlds for readers to inhabit.” In this 60 Minutes video, Salman Rushdie speaks about the dangers of censorship, how he would like to be remembered, and what inspires him to keep writing.
“You get to watch a relationship, and you get to watch it change,” says author Jason Reynolds in this 60 Minutes video about his experience as a StoryCorps facilitator recording almost three hundred sessions of conversations by everyday people that are now archived in the Library of Congress.
