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Colum McCann reads from "Out Of Kansas" (1992) by @SalmanRushdie: "I remember what matters. I remember that 'The Wizard of Oz'—the film, not the book, which I didn’t read as a child—was my very first literary influence..." (1/x)
"... My father, Anis Ahmed Rushdie, was a magical parent of young children, but he was prone to explosions, thunderous rages, bolts of emotional lightning, puffs of dragon smoke, and other menaces of the type also practiced by Oz..." #StandWithSalman (2/x)
"... the Great and Powerful, the first Wizard De-luxe. And when the curtain fell away and his growing offspring discovered, like Dorothy, the truth about adult humbug, it was easy for me to think, as she did, that my Wizard must be a very bad man indeed..." (3/x) #StandWithSalman
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