Salman Rushdie will join Emory University as Distinguished Writer in Residence, as well as hand over his archive, which is really cool. I’m interested to see the ripple effect from this in public events over the next couple years. Might be some good stuff if he’s hanging out in Atlanta more. Hopefully he’ll stir up some trouble. [thanks Rebekah]
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Mark Larson 
He stirred up some trouble yesterday on Radio 4 in England- he said something about “veils suck” in reference to an earlier comment made by Jack Snow. 24 hours after being named to Emory faculty, he’s starting PR trouble- that has to be some kind of record.
There’s no such thing as bad press!! [Unless, of course, it affects those federal grants…]