Salman Rushdie was taken off a ventilator and able to talk Saturday, a day after he was stabbed as he prepared to give a lecture in upstate New York. Rushdie remained hospitalized.
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Salman Rushdie was taken off a ventilator and able to talk Saturday, a day after he was stabbed as he prepared to give a lecture in upstate New York. Rushdie remained hospitalized with serious injuries, but fellow author Aatish Taseer tweeted in the evening that he was “off the ventilator and talking (and joking),” per the AP. Rushdie’s agent, Andrew Wylie, confirmed that information without offering further details. (Taseer later deleted his tweet and said it was « not my place » to give updates.) Rushdie, 75, suffered a damaged liver and severed nerves in an arm and an eye, Wylie said Friday evening.
