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Yahoo!D.J. Palladino's recent preview of Salman Rushdie's talk at UCSB [The Empire Writes Back, May 1] is a curiously mixed affair: the center bits given over to others' thoughts on the author, the bookends to a sour but breezy assessment of metafiction and Rushdie's place in it. The former suggest that Palladino's familiarity with the author's works runs mostly to promotional material, reviews, and a glance at the first page of Midnight's Children and the last pages of The Enchantress of Florence. The latter recall the peevish tone of his disappointing interview with Lou Reed from a couple years ago, making me wonder if Rushdie refusing to speak to him was the impetus for Palladino's piece. At any rate, either a substantial objection to storytellers obsessed by storytelling or an informed appreciation of Rushdie's body of work would have been more welcome.
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