I'm Gilbert Cruz editor of the New York Times Book Review and this is the Book Review podcast.

I'm here in your ears with another quick note.

You now have the ability to subscribe to New York Times audio and if you do you'll have

full access to new and older episodes of podcasts like this one your

favorite obviously as well as the daily serial and others.

The most recent episodes will still be available free, but everything else will be accessible only by subscribing.

We hope you'll consider doing so. I certainly hope you'll consider doing so because honestly it takes work to put out all these great podcasts and they're pretty dang amazing

particularly the show I'm about to mention.

This week we're giving over our feed to one of my favorite

interviewers here at the Times and really anywhere.

Ezra Klein.

Hopefully you listen to his podcast, the Ezretline show where he interviews newsmakers

and thinkers and sometimes authors, as he did earlier this year when he spoke to Salma and Rushty

upon the release of his memoir,

Knife, Meditations after an Attempted Murder.

Rushty's book is one of the five non-fiction nominees

for this year's National Book Awards, which will be awarded in mid-November.

And I thought this would be a good time to hear from Ezra and to hear from Mr. Rushdie.

Unsurprisingly, it's a great conversation and I hope you enjoy it.

From New York Times opinion, this is the Ezra Klein Show. So, I feel like I've always known who someone rushed he is. Long before I read

literary fiction he just sat in my consciousness as the author of this eerie sounding novel called the satanic verses, a novel so somehow dangerous he had to go into hiding after the Supreme Leader of Iran said he

and anyone involved in it should be killed for blasphemy Islam.

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