Why Salman Rushdie Has Gone Back To Science Fiction After All These Years

“It was one of my earliest interests as a writer” – see his largely forgotten first novel, Grimus – “and I’ve just taken a long time to circle back around to it. It was also a reaction against writing my memoir. I’d spend two or three years trying really hard to tell the truth, and by the end, I was sick of the truth – enough truth, let’s make some [expletive] up.”

Why Don’t Canadians Want To See Canadian Movies?

“With few exceptions, anglo-Canadians do not go to the theatre to see movies made by their countrymen. The market share of English-language Canadian films at the domestic box office consistently hovers in the 1-per-cent to 1.5-per-cent range of total ticket sales. Last year, it hit 2 per cent. That translated to a total box-office take for all domestic English-language films of $16.3-million – or roughly what the critically panned Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot earned.”