Edwidge Danticat and Salman Rushdie

Edwidge Danticat’s recent work of non-fiction, Create Dangerously, is “a call to arms for all immigrants, all artists, all those who choose to bear witness, and all those who choose to listen,” wrote Dave Eggers. Her forthcoming collection of stories is Claire of the Sea-Light. Salman Rushdie’s new memoir, about his years in hiding, is Joseph Anton. “Original art is never created in the safe middle ground,” said Rushdie at 2012’s PEN World Voices Festival. “Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes, disrespects sacred cows. . . . This is the art whose right to exist we must not only defend, but celebrate.”