In June, BookArtArea, the educational initiative of Angels and Muse, the popular artists’ co-working space in Lagos, called for applications to a free prose-writing masterclass. It was to be taught by Harvard creative writing professor Teju Cole, whose reflection, “Distance of Days,” we published; Saraba editor Emmanuel Iduma, whose nonfiction book A Stranger’s Pose was recently […]
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Teju Cole Offers Thoughts on Controversy Over NYT’s Coverage of Trump & Racism, Shares New Spotify Playlist
Days ago on Facebook, Teju Cole made a post about the debate over how The New York Times covers and should cover the US president Donald Trump’s racist statements. The novelist, who is the photography critic at The New York Times Magazine, shared a report on CNN and added his perspective. His post in full: […]
Apply to BookArtArea’s Free 5-Day Writing Masterclass with Teju Cole, Emmanuel Iduma, & Ayobami Adebayo
BookArtArea, the educational initiative of Angels and Muse, the popular artists’ co-working space in Lagos, is calling for applications to its free creative writing masterclass. To be taught by Teju Cole, Emmanuel Iduma and Ayobami Adebayo, the masterclass will take place at Angels and Muse, over five days, from 5 August to 9 August, and […]
Distance of Days | Teju Cole
(In Memoriam Bisi Silva. In Memoriam Okwui Enwezor.) 1. O. shows up in my dream last night. He is standing there as though listening to something. Wearing a dark, beautifully-cut suit, as usual. There’s a great look of concentration on his face. He says nothing but, finally, he takes off his jacket. He folds […]
Essays by Teju Cole & Chigozie Obioma Featured in The Good Immigrant USA Anthology Forthcoming in March
Essays by Teju Cole and Chigozie Obioma will appear in The Good Immigrant USA, an anthology exploring “what it’s like to be othered in an increasingly divided America.” Edited by Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman—the team behind the bestselling book The Good Immigrant—and forthcoming on 7 March from Little, Brown imprint Dialogue Books, the collection also features […]
Teju Cole Joins Harvard’s Department of English as Gore Vidal Professor of Creative Writing
Teju Cole has joined Harvard University’s Department of English as the Gore Vidal Professor of the Practice of Creative Writing. The information, which is yet to see an official announcement, is on Harvard’s Website, on a page that has been created for him, as well as on his own Website. This is his second time […]
Watch the Book Trailer for A Stranger’s Pose, Emmanuel Iduma’s Mix of Travelogue and Photography
Forthcoming from Cassava Republic Press—globally on 16 October, 2018 and in the US on 7 November, 2018—Nigerian writer and art critic Emmanuel Iduma’s A Stranger’s Pose is a mix of memoir, travelogue, and photography: an expansion of travel writing in African literature, a genre with little published in it so far. At 208 pages, A Stranger’s Pose is a immersive […]
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