## Metadata - Author: [[Simon van Zuylen-Wood]] - Full Title: Salman Rushdie Parties Again - Category: #articles - Summary: A defiant celebration of Knife caps a physical (and reputational) comeback. - URL: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/salam-rushdie-knife-book-party.html ## Full Document  A few minutes before [Salman Rushdie](http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/08/salman-rushdie-violently-in-attacked-on-stage-in-new-york.html)’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*](https://www.amazon.com/Knife-Meditations-After-Attempted-Murder/dp/0593730240). 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. The book cover’s design bears a Lucio Fontana–inspired gash, where the *I* in “KNIFE” should be. “There was a slightly longer title, like *Knife in the Eye*, or something,” Wylie says. “I suggested it should be *Knife*.” He looks up. “*Jonathan!*” he bellows. It’s Jonathan Becker, the storied *Vanity Fair* photographer.       *