Independent voices from the TWT Communities
When the British government gave Salman Rushdie its protection following the Iranian fatwa calling for his murder, it required him to adopt a pseudonym. Ever the literary gent, Mr. Rushdie took the first names of his two favorite writers, Joseph Conrad and Anton Chekhov. His protection officers called him Joe.
He says repeatedly how desperately unhappy he was at Rugby and how Cambridge left him feeling only somewhat less miserable, yet he is unwilling or unable to give any texture to all this misery.
