August 2012
Teju Cole
Resident in the Room from 28 - 31 August 2012
"The faint hiss of champagne being poured. The clink of glasses. Far below us was the muttering obscurity of the East River and beyond it, the borough of Queens, glimmering in the dark."
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Teju Cole is a writer, art historian, street photographer and currently Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College.
Born in the US (1975) to Nigerian parents, he was raised in Nigeria and now lives in Brooklyn. Author of two books, a novella, Every Day is for the Thief, and a novel, Open City (winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award, the New York City Book Award for Fiction, and the Rosenthal Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the New York Public Library Young Lions Award). Cole is also a contributor to the New York Times, Qarrtsiluni, Chimurenga, the New Yorker, Transition, Tin House, A Public Space, etc. He is currently at work on a book-length non-fiction narrative of Lagos and Small Fates.
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