A few minutes before Salman Rushdie’s book party begins, his longtime literary agent, Andrew Wylie, is sitting at a table outside the Waverly Inn with a Hoyo de Monterrey Cuban cigar between his teeth. He’s holding what might be the event’s only physical copy of Rushdie’s new work, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder. Wylie starts to hand it over, then pulls it back. I can’t read it yet, and neither can anyone else. “60 Minutes won’t let it out,” Wylie says, explaining that there’s an embargo until Rushdie’s interview with Anderson Cooper airs in a few nights.
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