{"type":"link","asset_type":"article","version":"1.0","cache_age":3600,"provider_name":"CANVAS Arts","provider_url":"https:\/\/artscanvas.org","title":"Examining Salman Rushdie's lifelong fight for free speech","publication_date":"August 15, 2022","summary":"Three days after being repeatedly stabbed onstage as he was preparing to give a lecture, author Salman Rushdie is recovering while the man accused of attacking him has been charged with attempted murder. Ayad Akhtar, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and novelist and president of PEN America, joins Jeffrey Brown to discuss Rushdie's life, work and the wider impact of the attack against him.","author_name":"By Jeffrey Brown, Alison Thoet","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/cdn.artscanvas.org\/static\/2022\/08\/a63e45d86728a41c6238415cddbe2098-attacked-1024x727.jpg","thumbnail_height":727,"thumbnail_width":1024}