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Salman Rushdie was an avid Super Mario World player while in hiding
Let’s say you’re an award winning novelist and the Supreme Leader of Iran has issued a fatwā for your head forcing you into hiding. What would you do to while the time away?If you’re Salman Rushdie you play Super Mario World, as it turns out the esteemed author did quite a lot of after his controversial book The Satanic Verses caught the ire of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.In his new third-person memoir Joseph Anton (as detailed by The Millions) the author explained that he got really into Super Mario World after his son Zafar taught him to play it during his decade on the lam.Read more…
