Salman Rushdie has pulled out of Jaipur literature festival, saying he fears assassination Muslim clerics protested against his participation.

• Cannonball Blog reviews Alice Bag’s Violence Girl.

• How Padgett Powell has written his way out of conventional storytelling.

• Is Downton Abbey reviving the careers of long dead authors?

• Dolan Morgan on the mythology of hijacking at Fortnight.  (Also, read Dolan’s Sunday Story while you’re at it.)

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