I'm not out of that forest yet, really." Salman Rushdie attends Francesco Clemente, Angelus Novus Opening on Maat Vito Schnabel Gallery in New York, New York. I write, but it's a combination of blankness and junk, stuff that I write and that I delete the next day. I sit down to write, and nothing happens. "I've found it very, very difficult to write. "There is such a thing as PTSD, you know," he said. Rushdie has long faced death threats linked to his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, which was banned in many countries with large Muslim populations upon its 1988 publication, over passages. The acts of typing and writing were challenging, he said, because of "the lack of feeling in the fingertips" of some fingers. In February, Rushdie published his most recent novel " Victory City." He told "The New Yorker" that he struggled, both mentally and physically, to write the novel. Rushdie spent years in hiding with police protection after Iran's Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or edict, in 1989 calling for his death over the alleged blasphemy of the novel "The Satanic Verses." Iran has "categorically" denied any link with the attack. The attack on Salman Rushdie, and on free speech 04:27
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