Inprint Salman Rushdie Reading

If you're interested in a reading and author talk featuring Salman Rushdie, join other book club members in going to this event. Please only RSVP YES to this event if you buy a ticket ($40 -- this rate includes a copy of his book, so it's not as bad as it sounds) in advance, and you are 90 to 100% sure that you are going. Here's the link to the event Salman Rushdie reading (and where you can buy a ticket, beginning November 18th.)

Right now, they have the location as TBA, but most other writers are in the downtown Houston area in the theater district. I will update the location as we get closer to January 12. (right now, I am just listing Downtown Houston)

Event starts at 7:30, but we'll meet at 7 in the front. Maybe arrive with a coffee in hand so we can stand there drinking coffee and talking while others arrive. Hopefully we get at least five people, but the more the merrier :)

Salman Rushdie will read from his new “quintet of stories” The Eleventh Hour, followed by an on-stage conversation with fiction writer Brenda Peynado. The event is presented as part of the 2025/2026 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series. Please note, ticket buyers and season subscribers will be notified of the venue ten days prior to the event.


Salman Rushdie “is a writer of courage, impressive strength, and sheer stylistic brilliance” (Washington Post) – a globally acclaimed novelist and essayist whose work blends history, myth, politics, and magical realism. Born in Bombay, he rose to international prominence with Midnight’s Children, which won the 1981 Booker Prize and was later named the “Booker of Bookers.” He is the author of 14 novels, including The Satanic Verses, Shame, The Moor’s Last Sigh, Quichotte, and Victory City, plus a story collection, three memoirs, and several collections of essays translated into more than 40 languages. He has received a knighthood for services to literature and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Rushdie returns to Inprint with his newest work, The Eleventh Hour, a collection of five interconnected stories that explore aging, mortality, memory, and identity, set in India, England, and the U.S. Rushdie describes it as “a single work” with each of the stories “in conversation with one another,” anchored by a prologue and epilogue that frame the emotional journey. The Spectator writes, “More than 40 years after Midnight’s Children, there is still nobody who spins a yarn quite like Salman Rushdie,” while The Times of London calls him “a writer who has not just enlarged literature’s capacities, he has expanded the world’s imaginative possibilities.”