Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder Local My name is Elliot Chase

My name is Elliot Chase

A Calamity of Souls breathes richly imagined and detailed life into a bygone era

Through it all

dark attraction drawing them closer and closer together

" -- Ploughshares

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder Local My name is Elliot ChaseFrom internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduringand survivingan attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him On the morning of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the Chautauqua Institution, preparing to give a lecture on the importance of keeping writers safe from harm, when a man in blackblack clothes, black maskrushed down