To read and be pursued in LA

That there is Salman Rushdie on the right and Carrie Fisher on the left. I had a question about something she said in during the interview, so afterward I talked briefly to Ms. Fisher. She was surrounded by Sharpie-carrying, memorabilia-wielding StarWarsGeeks, and she nicely signed a bunch of stuff, but still they kept shuffling slowly along behind us as we walked and talked, like so many partially-sated zombies.

Rushdie had a long line of people waiting for him, too.

They also clutched memorabilia — copies of The Enchantress of Florence — and, come to think of it, they were also hoping for signatures. But somehow it wasn’t quite as creepy.