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“The storytelling animal”: Salman Rushdie at Duke

Salman Rushdie’s lecture Tuesday night, at Duke University’s Page Auditorium, was technically “sold out,” although tickets were free. So it seemed appropriate that Rushdie began his engaging and witty talk, “Public Events, Private Lives: Literature and Politics in the Modern World,” the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute’s Distinguished Lecture, by talking about Charles Dickens. As […]