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Salman Rushdie off ventilator, 'talking and joking' after attack in New York

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British author Salman Rushdie speaks as he presents his book "Quichotte" at the Volkstheater in Vienna, Austria, on November 16, 2019. - Austria OUT (Photo by HERBERT NEUBAUER/APA/AFP via Getty Images) MAYVILLE, N.Y. - Salman Rushdie is "on the road to recovery," his agent confirmed Sunday, two days after the author of "The Satanic Verses" suffered serious injuries in a stabbing at a lecture in upstate New York.The announcement followed news that the lauded writer was removed from a ventilator Saturday and able to talk and joke.

Agent Andrew Wylie continued to caution that although Rushdie's "condition is headed in the right direction," his recovery would be a long process.

Rushdie, 75, suffered a damaged liver and severed nerves in an arm and an eye, Wylie had previously said, and was likely to lose the injured eye.Hadi Matar, 24, pleaded not guilty Saturday to attempted murder and assault charges in the attack at the Chautauqua Institution, a nonprofit education and retreat center.A judge ordered him held without bail after District Attorney Jason Schmidt told her Matar took steps to purposely put himself in position to harm Rushdie, getting an advance pass to the event where the author was speaking and arriving a day early bearing a fake ID."This was a targeted, unprovoked, preplanned attack on Mr.

Rushdie," Schmidt said.Public defender Nathaniel Barone complained that authorities had taken too long to get Matar in front of a judge while leaving him "hooked up to a bench at the state police barracks."Author Salman Rushdie was airlifted to a hospital after being stabbed on stage before a lecture in New York.

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