. ♪ charlie: salmon rushdie is here.written 12 novels, for nonfiction and a book of short stories. he won the booker prize for midnight's children. he was knighted by the queen. his new book is called "2 years." it is his first novel for adults and seven years. good to have you. your last book was in the more? outan: yes, i just worked that in a kind of spooky me, i started working about two years ago. somehow it took me 1001 nights. charlie: how do you decide what to write? i try: in between books, all kinds of things. most of them are any good after 24 hours. sometimes an idea sticks. i had this idea of geneies attacking manhattan. which would be enjoyable. i had this image of a man was a and if you're somebody who's been your life nurturing the earth, the things that grow in it, and you wake up you are an inch off the ground, that is a shock. athought maybe it could be story of someone waking up and being a cockroach. like kafka. story,orphosis in his and it grew from there. charlie: you said you get sick and tired of