Host the tv coverage of the National Book festival continues with novelist Salman Rushdie with novelist salman rue hello i am Salman Rushdie the author most recently of a book that i am here to talk about as the title suggest a novel inspired and i guess it is a version of that story will and his sidekick making his way across america on the absurd quest for love. Because i found as i was thinking about the book the characters became their own creatures rather than his. I started off with the idea to writing a novel more or less entirely set in new york city even with the previous novel i said next time you have to get out of town so i have this idea of a novel that would somehow range widely across the country. And try to do two things and to take america at this particular moment. And the other aspect with teachers you not to do thats a dangerous thing because then the novel begins to read like yesterdays papers if you do it right thats available for. And then the easiest way to desc
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It hints at a story beyond two years of service and fighting over there. Guest actually, exactly, we return, fighting, the africanamerican experience, world war i. The key to that title is, number one, you dont see the world military. It is not just about soldiers. It is about soldiers and civilians. It is about men and women. It is about young and old. It is about white and black. That is the long title. Title, we return fighting, speaks to what happened after the war and how africanamericans used world war i as a transformative event for them, just like it was a transformative event throughout the globe. Host we explore that story throughout this hour of washington journal, day five of museum week on washington journal with our friends at America History tv, cspan3. Phone lines split up regionally. Eastern or central time zones, 202 7488000. Mountain or pacific time zones, 202 7488001. Special line set aside for africanamerican veterans, 202 7488002. Would love to hear from you as we