Among Teju Cole’s many talents is his ability to curate music that captures a mood or even the feel of a place. Since mid-March, when the lockdown began, Cole has been putting together playlists on Spotify that, as he explains on his Facebook page, are in line with the “gesture of sharing music in a […]
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Books That Go with Wine and Books That Don’t
The beverages most associated with reading are tea and coffee. But many readers love to cozy up in bed with a book and a glass of wine. Great weekend pastime. Our resident librarian, who is, of course imaginary, happens to be a part-time sommelier. So we asked her for recommendations on what books are best […]
Teju Cole’s Essay on The Disposability of Black Lives is Essential Reading for Our Current Moment
As we mourn the death of George Floyd, whose life was brutally taken by a white police officer in Minneapolis, let us reflect on something Teju Cole wrote a few days after another black man, Michael Brown, was shot in Ferguson, Missouri, back in 2014. The piece, titled “Black Body: Rereading James Baldwin’s ‘Stranger in […]
Apply to Teju Cole’s Online Workshop for Writers & Photographers
Teju Cole announced on Facebook that he will be hosting an online workshop for writers and photographers. The workshop, titled “Paragraph/Photograph,” will take place across three consecutive Sundays in May. The application deadline is Wednesday, April 29, at 5pm EST (9pm GMT). There are three conditions for applying to the workshop. Read Cole’s post below […]
Read Teju Cole’s Ravishingly Imagined, COVID-19-inspired Fable of a Mysterious City
Teju Cole is on top of his game in a new, Coronavirus-inspired short story published on LEVEL, a publication hosted on Medium. The ravishingly imagined “City of Pain” follows a traveller who arrives a holy city, Reggiana, whose citizens, rich and poor alike, are being plucked by “the Visitation,” a democratic hand of death. Remarkably, […]
Attend The New Yorker Festival Masterclass with Teju Cole and Zadie Smith
Tickets are currently on sale for a masterclass with the award-winning writers Teju Cole and Zadie Smith. Themed “On Writing,” it is part of a series of events for the 20th The New Yorker Festival, a landmark event every October which “brings together the biggest names in news, politics, books, film, music, art, and popular […]
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