Salman Rushdie

'Kathy gets word that the famed Madame Tussauds wants to create a wax figure in Kathy's likeness for their Las Vegas museum. She is overjoyed and feeling her D List status rise.Kathy also gets to work on her highly anticipated memoir. To prepare, she meets with one of her favorite authors, Jackie Collins, for advice on how to make the memoir steamy.Later, Kathy flies to New York for a photo shoot for the book cover. While there, Kathy takes some time out to stalk Oprah's best friend Gayle King, hoping to enlist her help in getting Oprah approve the book for her book club. Kathy then has a meeting where she pitches chapter titles to her Random House editors, who set up a meeting for Kathy with another author.....Salman Rushdie. They bond over infuriating large groups of religious nut jobs and talk about the fatwa placed on him by the leader of Iran. Kathy suspects the entire Bible belt might have a fatwa out on her.So she decides that to help book sales she needs to smooth things over with the south. Kathy books a commercial for one of the region's favorite foods - fried chicken. While filming the commercial, Kathy eats dozens of boneless chicken wings and badgers the chicken executives for a free chicken for life card.' Also available on iTunes

Guests: rapper/actor Mos Def, author Salman Rushdie, writer Christopher Hitchens, former New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley. HBO's acclaimed series hosted by politically incorrect muse Bill Maher features an opening monologue, 'roundtable' discussions with Maher and a guest forum, segments with other special guests, special taped segments, and Maher's popular 'New Rules' segment.

Canadian novelist Atwood and British novelist Amis--both agnostics--explain the portrayal of fundamentalism in their works and its role in today's world.

In a world where religion poisons some lives but gives profound purpose to others, how do we learn to live togther? Join veteran journalist Bill Moyers (Jospeh Campbell and the Power of Myth, Bill Moyers' Journal) as he sits down with 12 noted writers and thinkers from a wide spectrum of beliefs to discuss their search for meaning. These frank, one-on-one coversations touch on the pressing issues in our post-9/11 world: the increasing politicization of faith, the perceived gulf between science and religion, the tension between tolerance and free expression, and more. Original voices such as Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis, Mary Gordon, and climatologist Sir John Houghton add a personal dimension as they talk openly about their most heartfelt beliefs and how those beliefs inform their lives and work.