[1] Padma Lakshmi is gearing up for the third season (her second) of [2] Top Chef, the Bravo network’s popular culinary competition. Starting June 6, tune in at 10 p.m. ET to see Lakshmi host the series which, this time around, takes place in Miami.

Not one to be left out of the spotlight, [3] Lakshmi’s husband, Salman Rushdie, swung by the Colbert Report Wednesday evening to discuss the death of mainstream literary criticism. Colbert asked the Booker Prize winner why “it’s important to have need these elitist, ivory tower Ph.D.-types in magazines and newspapers” letting us know us what we “should and shouldn’t read” (especially with Oprah already telling us). Check out Rushdie’s response here: