Author Salman Rushdie is making progress after an attack last August left him badly injured, but he’s still struggling to write, he said in his first interview since the incident.
The award-winning novelist required surgery after being stabbed onstage before an Aug. 12 lecture at the Chautauqua Institution near Buffalo.
“There is such a thing as P.T.S.D., you know,” Rushdie told The New Yorker. “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.”
