After being stabbed about 10 times on Friday before a talk at the Chautauqua Institution in Western New York, Salman Rushdie is off a ventilator and beginning recovery. “The road to recovery has begun,” his agent Andrew Wylie told the New York Times. “It will be long; the injuries are severe, but his condition is headed in the right direction.” Following the attack, Rushdie, 75, was flown to a hospital with injuries to his neck and abdomen. Wylie told the press on Friday that the author was being treated for severed nerves and damage to his liver, and that he […]
