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Summary
The splendid Kwame Anthony Appiah - philosopher, writer, President of the American PEN Centre and currently teaching at Princeton University gives the Alan Missen Oration at the Melbourne Writers Festival. This edition is rounded off by a short archive extract from a 2008 interview with Salman Rushdie, the target of a fatwa issued by the Ayatollah Khomeni in 1989, after the publication of 'The Satanic Verses'. This session however is a very good humoured conversation in San Francisco with Michael Krasny about Machiavelli - Rushdie reckons he's had a bad rap!
