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Book Acquired, 1.11.2012 (Teju Cole Edition)
Teju Cole’s Open City was a big favorite for many lit folks last year, including Anthony at Times Flow Stemmed, a blog I admire. The book seems similar to Sebald’s strange opus The Rings of Saturn. In...
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Teju Cole’s Open City Is a Strange, Marvelous Novel That Captures the...
“And so when I began to go on evening walks last fall . . .” begins Julius, the perspicacious narrator of Teju Cole’s admirable and excellent début Open City. That opening “And” is significant, an...
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Teju Cole’s Seven-part Excursus: Aerial Bombing as the Presiding Metaphor of...
Tagged: aerial bombing, Digressions, Downton Abbey, drone warfare, height, Rush Limbaugh, Teju Cole, Twitter, Violence
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Read “Farewell Tour,” New Short Fiction from Teju Cole
Here’s the first paragraph of Teju Cole’s new short story “Farewell Tour” — Frank Low told me this one Friday night in Times Square. He said he’d been transfixed by “Lavoisier and His Wife” at the...
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Read 45 Small Fates from Teju Cole
If you follow Teju Cole on Twitter, you’ve likely already read many of his small fates, tweets he composed over two years drawn from Nigerian newspapers. The project follows the spirit of Félix...
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Teju Cole’s Dictionary of Received Ideas
Yesterday on Twitter, Teju Cole shared a series of definitions—some ironic, some hilarious funny, all perceptive. SUNSET. Beautiful. Like a painting. Post on Instagram and hashtag "no filter."— Teju...
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S.D. Chrostowska’s Novel Permission Deconstructs the Episotolary Form
In trying to frame a review of S.D. Chrostowska’s novel Permission, I have repeatedly jammed myself against many of the conundrums that the book’s narrator describes, imposes, chews, digests, and...
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Teju Cole’s Every Day Is for the Thief (Book Acquired, 3.17.2014)
Teju Cole’s Open City is one of my favorite novels of recent years, so I was psyched when Every Day Is for the Thief (which is kinda sorta his latest—it was published nearly a decade ago in Nigeria)...
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Riff on Not Writing
1. Let’s start with this: This is for me, this is not for you. 2. The above statement is not a very inviting invitation to the audience, is it? Sorry. Look. I have the Writer’s Block. The blockage. The...
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The Inhumanity Museum
Scissors, Richard Diebenkorn Near the end of the first cycle-section of Doris Lessing’s novel The Golden Notebook, protagonist Anna Wulf abandons the pretense of personal narrative in favor of...
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S.D. Chrostowska’s Permission (Book Acquired, 8.10.2013)
Sylwia Chrostowska’s novel Permission—got it in the mail on Saturday. I’d been swimming in the river, in the relentless August sun, for most of the day, and when I got home I just wanted to watch a...
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The Inhumanity Museum
Near the end of the first cycle-section of Doris Lessing’s novel The Golden Notebook, protagonist Anna Wulf abandons the pretense of personal narrative in favor of pastiche, collage, clipping. Our...
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Teju Cole on shattered glass
Untitled (Broken Window, San Francisco), 1937 by Brett Weston. Teju Cole’s essay “The History of Photography is a History of Shattered Glass,” part of his “On Photography” series, is new in today’s New...
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