It’s been 25 years since Salman Rushdie published his novel Satanic Verses and Iran’s head of state, the Ayatollah Khomeini, responded by charging him with blasphemy and placing a death sentence upon his head. Not surprisingly, Rushdie went into hiding when he heard the news.  Th

We have a bookstore in my town which, despite the growth of Amazon, has survived. One reason is customer loyalty. Where I live, the natives like to think local. I am not a fan of the store, though I do buy books there. I was proud of them once, when Salman Rushdie was targeted for dea