2026-02-09
46 分钟Tonight on this special edition of 60 Minutes Presents, the 60 Minutes Book Club.
Here she is taking a flamethrower to her own book.
Margaret Atwood was firing back at would-be book burners.
Her books have been banned for content deemed overly sexual, morally corrupt, anti-Christian.
The government put out an edict to all school boards saying that they couldn't have any books in the library that had either direct or indirect sex.
What is indirect sex?
Did people try to kill you?
Yes.
Author Salman Rushdie has been a marked man for nearly half his life.
And in 2022, a knife-wielding attacker almost killed him.
This is his first television interview.
surgeons who had saved my life said to me, he said,
first you were really unlucky and then you were really lucky.
I said, what's the lucky part?
And he said, well,
the lucky part is that the man who attacked you had no idea how to kill a man with a knife.
Whether it's this attempt at the biggest pizza party ever, or trying to eat an airplane,
there's a method to the madness of getting into Guinness World Records.
It's as many as 95% of submissions get rejected.
We do validate people that do things that others might seem a bit weird,