Author Salman Rushdie is making progress after an attack last August left him badly injured, but he’s still struggling to write, he said in his first interview since the incident.
left him badly injured, but he’s still struggling to write, he said in his first interview since the incident.
“There is such a thing as P.T.S.D., you know,” Rushdie told The New Yorker. “I’ve found it very, very difficult to write. I sit down to write, and nothing happens. I write, but it’s a combination of blankness and junk, stuff that I write and that I delete the next day. I’m not out of that forest yet, really.”
He now has trouble typing due to a “lack of feeling” in his fingertips and writes “more slowly,” he told the magazine. Authorities identified the attacker as Hadi Matar, who pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and assault charges. Matar is from Fairview, New Jersey.
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