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No Wine (or Whiners) Book Club - November
Thu, Nov 13
|Brielle
Welcoming New Members! Group facilitator, Pat Barton. New book on display at library. Featured Title: Knife by Salaman Rushdie
Time & Location
Nov 13, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Brielle, 610 South St, Brielle, NJ 08730, USA
About the Event
NOVEMBER BOOK: Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring—and surviving—an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Time, NPR, Town & Country, New York Post, Chicago Public Library, Kirkus Reviews
On the morning of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the Chautauqua Institution, preparing to give a lecture on the importance of keeping writers safe from harm, when a man in black—black clothes, black mask—rushed down the aisle toward him, wielding a knife. His first thought: So it’s you. Here you are.
What followed was a horrific act of violence that shook the literary world and beyond. Now, for the first time, and in…