Salman Rushdie is back, and he doesn’t want your pity
Author Salman Rushdie, marking his return to the literary world after a violent attack last year that left him permanently injured, says he doesn't want pity.“I've always tried very hard not to adopt the role of a victim,” he recently said to New Yorker magazine editor David Remnick. The story marked the author's first interview of him since he was stabbed.His reappearance as a public figure also included a recent real-life visit to the New York City office his agent, Andrew Wylie, promotion for his new book, "Victory City," completed before the stabbing, and a vow to eschew feelings of bitterness six months after the attack in western New York.In 1989, Rushdie defended advice to lie low after Iran's late supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, put a virtual contract on his life i...