(NY Post) Author Salman Rushdie spoke out for the first time since being brutally stabbed last summer at a literary event in western New York, saying he suffers post-traumatic stress from the “colossal” attack that left him partially blind.
“There is such a thing as PTSD, you know,” he told the New Yorker in his first interview since he was stabbed 15 times by a lone-wolf Islamic fanatic, who copped to the attempted assassination last summer in a jailhouse interview with the Post.
“I’ve found it very, very difficult to write. I sit down to write, and nothing happens. I write, but it’s a combination of blankness and junk, stuff that I write and that I delete the next day. I’m not out of that forest yet, really.”
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