Federal authorities in Savannah have charged 33 people as part of an undercover operation into gun and drug trafficking. A majority of those named in 17 federal indictments that were unsealed today are from Georgia and South...
Celebrity cook Paula Deen says she has used racial slurs in the past but insists she and her brother, who are accused of racial and sexual discrimination in a lawsuit by a former manager of their restaurant,...
Celebrity cook Paula Deen says she has used racial slurs in the past but insists she and her brother, who are accused of racial and sexual discrimination in a lawsuit by a former manager of their restaurant, don't...
A panel appointed by Georgia's governor to determine whether an indicted state lawmaker should be suspended will meet next week.
A panel appointed by Georgia's governor to determine whether an indicted state lawmaker should be suspended will meet next week.
ATLANTA (AP) - Salman Rushdie says he's pleased that readers of his novel, "The Satanic Verses," are beginning to consider it "in the world of books" and not just "the world of scandal and politics."
Rushdie spoke with the Atlanta Press Club on Monday about how young readers have the chance to consider it as a literary work. They weren't around when the 1988 book was declared blasphemous by Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini who called for Rushdie's death.
His recent memoir, "Joseph Anton," details the years after that he spent in hiding.
Rushdie also teaches at Emory University and talked about how he chose the pseudonym "Joseph Anton" during the fatwa.
He says it was a mash-up of authors Joseph Conrad and Anton Chekhov, who represented the underground world he was living in and the isolation.
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