Salman Rushdie, the Booker Prize-winning novelist, insists that he is not, like so many media members before him, going to Substack-at least not full-time. He won't be publishing his next book on the newsletter platform. Instead, he's taken an advance from the company to fool around with "whatever comes into" his head. This will apparently include a serialized novella. "I think that new technology always makes possible new art forms, and I think literature has not found its new form in this digital age," Rushdie told The Guardian. "Whatever the new thing is that's going to arise out of this new world, I don't think we've seen it yet."
"People have been talking about the death of the novel, almost since the birth of the novel," he continued. "But the actual, old fashioned thing, the hardcopy book, is incredibly, mutinously alive. And here I am having another go, I guess, at killing it."
