Salman Rushdie recently turned up at a McNally Johnson bookstore near South Street Seaport in Manhattan. "It's actually not particularly close to where I live, but I come here a lot," he said.

He was browsing for his own books. His newest one, "The Eleventh Hour," is his 23rd – a collection of short stories and novellas.

Life has changed since the 2022 attack that nearly killed him. "I think what has changed is, for public-facing things, then there has to be security in a way that there wasn't for 20 years," he said.

Author Salman Rushdie with correspondent Martha Teichner. CBS News

On August 12, 2022, Rushdie was on stage in Chautauqua, N.Y., ready to speak, ironically about America as a safe haven for writers. A man lunged at him with a knife.

His account of the attack, "Knife,"

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