Salman Rushdie announces novella in unusual form
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie, author of the controversial book </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Satanic Verses</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">, has </span><a rel="noopener" href="https://www.goodreadingmagazine.com.au/latestnews/salman-rushdie-serialises-novella.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400;">announced</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> he will be writing his next book on the newsletter platform Substack.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The newsletter is called </span><em><a rel="noopener" href="https://salmanrushdie.substack.com/p/welcome-to-my-sea-of-stories?showWelcome=true" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Salman’s Sea of Stories</span></a></em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in a reference to his 1990 novel </span><em><a rel="noopener" href="https://www.goodreadingmagazine.com.au/haroun-and-the-sea-of-stories.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Haroun and the Sea of Stories</span></a></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and will be where his new book </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Seventh Wave</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> will be published, along with short stories, essays and other works.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Speaking to </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Guardian, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rushdie revealed that </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Seventh Wave</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> totals at 35,000 words and is about a “film director and an actor slash muse written in the style of New Wave cinema”.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">According to his website, most of his work will be free to access.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, a paid subscription is needed to access additional works, including </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Seventh Wave</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which will be released in weekly instalments. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The point of doing this is to have a closer relationship with readers, to speak freely, without any intermediaries or gatekeepers,” his website reads.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“There’s just us here, just you and me, and we can take this wherever it goes. I hope you’ll enjoy the ride. I’ll try to make it fun.”</span></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Image: salmanrushdie.com</span></em></p>
