Print It To Shut Them Up

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Sheila

10/02/08 04:34PM

Filed to: Books

Jewel of Medina, Sherry Jones's novel about the prophet Muhammad's child bride that's totally controversial for about 12 people, will be rushed to print in the U.S.—mainly so that people will just stop yapping about a book they haven't read. (Random House, the first American publisher, dropped the book; its British publisher got a firebomb dropped into his letter-slot.) [AP]

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The First Mrs. de Winter 2.0 Sheila 10/02/08 04:43PM

Yeah, well, I've read it.

Xylo The First Mrs. de Winter 2.0 10/02/08 04:57PM

@Elektra: Where, in Serbia? [www.monstersandcritics.com]

The First Mrs. de Winter 2.0 Xylo 10/02/08 05:11PM

@Xylo:

I'd tell you, but then I'd have to announce a fatwa against myself.

My reaction, in two words: Puh. Leeze.

Xylo The First Mrs. de Winter 2.0 10/02/08 06:59PM

@Elektra: To the book? The bombing? I heard her interviewed on CBC As It Happens the other day, she sounded quite normal, if a little defensive on the "are you an Islamic historian?" question: [www.cbc.ca] (Part 2)

smitros001 Sheila 10/02/08 10:55PM

This is tangential, if not off-topic altogether, but all this reminds me that The Satanic Verses was about a hundred pages too long. One of the lesser crimes surrounding that book was that nobody stepped up to Rushdie and decided to edit more.

relunctant entity Sheila 10/02/08 04:47PM

First being dropped by the View, and that guy, and then Random House. This really isn't a good time for Star Jones.

Wait. Her real name is Sherry?

Hardrock Johnson Sheila 10/02/08 04:43PM

You left about five zeros off of that number.