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Salman Rushdie on the Wonder of Christopher Hitchens

Apparently one night Hitch and his colleagues challenged their close friend Salman Rushdie to state what a Shakespeare play would be called if Ludlum had had the naming of it.

Christopher Hitchens in Conversation with Salman Rushdie at ...

Salman Rushdie recalls his friend’s many joyfully waged battles, not least the Hitch’s magnificent argument with Death.

Christopher Hitchens · Diary: The Salman Rushdie Acid Test

Apparently one night Hitch and his colleagues challenged their close friend Salman Rushdie to state what a Shakespeare play would be called if Ludlum had had the naming of it.

Salman Rushdie - Wikipedia

Salman Rushdie recalls his friend’s many joyfully waged battles, not least the Hitch’s magnificent argument with Death.

The late Christopher Hitchens once recalled a dinner party at which Salman Rushdie, invited to retitle any Shakespeare play using a Robert Ludlum-style title, immediately came up with The Elsinore Equivocation.

Ludlum's novel titles traded on the formulation: 'definite article + proper name + abstract noun'; titles that suggested a kind of Platonic ideal of conspiracy. He was pretty good at that.

Geoffrey (or is it Jeffrey?) Archer, aka Lord Archer of Weston-super-Mare, is another very popular writer, though hardly in the Ludlum League (which is in itself a potential Ludlum title). Archer. when choosing a title for his latest perpetration, tends to go for scrag-end off-cuts of language - especially proverbs, or bits of the Bible or Shakespeare. He has published, among others, the following novels and short story collections:

Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less (1976)

First Among Equals (1984)
A Matter of Honour(1986)
As the Crow Flies (1991)
Honour Among Th

Apparently one night Hitch and his colleagues challenged their close friend Salman Rushdie to state what a Shakespeare play would be called if.

Christopher Hitchens' essay in Vanity Fair starts out as something of an ode to Salman Rushdie: At a dinner party somebody was complaining not just about the epic badness of the novels of Robert Ludlum but also about the badness of their titles.

When Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa on novelist Salman Rushdie for The Satanic Verses, it was the opening shot in a war on cultural freedom.

When Christopher Hitchens Vigilantly Defended Salman Rushdie ...
Christopher Hitchens and I invented the word games below.

Christopher Hitchens on the cultural fatwa - Vanity Fair
Christopher Hitchens' essay in Vanity Fair starts out as something of an ode to Salman Rushdie: At a dinner party somebody was complaining not just about the epic badness of the novels of Robert Ludlum but also about the badness of their titles.

Robert Ludlum titles: Great fake ones from Slate readers (and ...
An absorbing interview with Salman Rusdie, “By the book,” about the many books he's read, which ones he liked and disliked, and evaluations of their authors.

Christopher Hitchens in Conversation with Salman Rushdie

Christopher Hitchens and Salman Rushdie get Cozy at 92Y
When Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa on novelist Salman Rushdie for The Satanic Verses, it was the opening shot in a war on cultural freedom.

	Apparently one night Hitch and his colleagues challenged their close friend Salman Rushdie to state what a Shakespeare play would be called if.
	Christopher Hitchens' essay in Vanity Fair starts out as something of an ode to Salman Rushdie: At a dinner party somebody was complaining not just about the epic badness of the novels of Robert Ludlum but also about the badness of their titles.
	When Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa on novelist Salman Rushdie for The Satanic Verses, it was the opening shot in a war on cultural freedom.