Beauty, as the old adage goes, is piercing, like a pain. Padma Lakshmi, one of the most beautiful women on the planet (and a particular Corsair obsession), was, apparently, the proximate cause of the stretch of time between Salman Rushdie's novels. When Diane Von Furstenberg inadvertently spilled the news that the Rushdies were done we wondered how that might affect his literary output. From The Times of India:
"Controversial India-born author Salman Rushdie has revealed that his wife Padma Lakshmi's decision to divorce him had a crippling effect on him.
Speaking for the first time of his 'emotionally violent' split last year from the Chennai-born model and actress who is 23 years his junior, 60-year-old Rushdie told Tatler magazine 'it provoked a crippling bout of writer's block which threatened to end my literary career.'
Rushdie's new tome, The Enchantress of Florence, is about, according to Bloomberg, ''Akbar the Great, Niccolo Machiavelli and Lorenzo de'Medici ... each falling under the spell of the siren who steals men's hearts and the book's title."
Padma on the mind?
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