{"id":5994,"date":"2009-10-23T15:52:48","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T20:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=5994"},"modified":"2009-10-23T16:04:18","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T21:04:18","slug":"one_week_in_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/23\/one_week_in_the\/","title":{"rendered":"One Week in the Life of Salman Rushdie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"rushdie.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/rushdie.jpg\" width=\"229\" height=\"314\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/p>\n\n<p>Who needs to read a good novel when you can scrutinize the life of a fun-loving author? That&#8217;s right, you guessed it. Salman Rushdie is at his hijinks again. I was half-tempted to write a long, philosophical (totally hypocritical) post titled &#8220;An Open Letter to Sir Salman&#8221; that would poke snarky fun at this lothario, but I didn&#8217;t have the heart. After all, who are we to mock another&#8217;s romantic foibles? Well, that and the other part of me wanted to write a totally different post called &#8220;Choose me, Salman,&#8221; which touted my virtues over those of his former lady-loves. (Foremostly, I would never choose cooking over a wordsmith like Salman, mostly because I can&#8217;t cook.) Finally, I came upon the perfect way to update SM readers on Salman&#8217;s latest exploits. A timeline. Okay kids, now pretend you&#8217;re back in fifth-grade history class and let Teach lay it out for ya. After all, it&#8217;s Friday. You need your celebrity fix. Here&#8217;s how it goes down.<\/p>\n\n<p><!--more-->\n &#8211; \n<strong>Tuesday, October 20<\/strong>. Actress and most-recent girlfriend of Rushdie&#8217;s, Pia Glenn, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/pagesix\/salman_hung_up_on_padma_gj06pCskSW6qVerrOeiVON\">tells the New York Post about her relationship <\/a>with the man of letters. According to her, things ended less than amicably.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\n  <p>Statuesque actress Pia Glenn said she fell in love with the 62-year-old novelist, who &#8220;said he loved me.&#8221; She moved into his New York home in January. But she says she became frustrated with his obsession with Lakshmi, and she was heartbroken when he abruptly dumped her by e-mail in June. &#8220;He stole more than a year of my life, but I held out hope we could be friends. But whenever we tried to speak on the phone it became ugly &#8212; yelling and shouting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p><strong>Wednesday, October 21<\/strong>. Salman strikes back, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/pagesix\/salman_rips_pia_as_unstable_BSEcxM5wOVuqKO8tASB6IP\">telling the same paper<\/a> that Glenn is a &#8220;liar.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\n  <p>&#8220;It is hard even to list the untruths in her article. We never lived together &#8212; she lived at her father&#8217;s home in Freeport, LI. We never agreed to have children together. Our relationship lasted five and a half months, so it&#8217;s hard to see how I &#8216;stole a year&#8217; of her life.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/li>\n<li><p>Thursday, October 22. And the ex is old news. On to the new news. Rushdie<a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5387701\/min-lieskovsky-salman-rushdies-new-squeeze\"> is seen with a new gal, half-Hungiarian, half-Chinese Min Lieskovsky<\/a>. And she&#8217;s totally blonde! I mean, she totally went to Harvard! Oh yeah, and <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5387825\/salman-rushdies-facebook-flirting-that-won-min-lieskovskys-heart\">they&#8217;re totally cutesy-cute on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>And that sums it up for this week in Salman. On a totally unrelated note, Mr. Rushdie, if you happen to remember that girl in the pink dress who totally fainted when you came to the book-signing of &#8220;The Enchantress in Florence&#8221; at the Free Library of Philadelphia last June that was me and I still looooooove you.<\/p>\n\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-1222307\/What-Salman-Rushdies-secret--hes-got-young-beauty-arm.html\">Photo credit<\/a>.]<\/p>\n\n<p>Related Posts: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/004512.html\">Salman Rushdie, from Outsider to &#8220;Knight Bachelor<\/a>,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/004543.html\">Salman and Padma Escape Stupor, Separate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/001115.html\">Sticks and Stones\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who needs to read a good novel when you can scrutinize the life of a fun-loving author? That&#8217;s right, you guessed it. Salman Rushdie is at his hijinks again. 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