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FILTER RESULTS ►Teju Cole’s Photography
Amitava Kumar reviews Open City author Teju Cole’s photography exhibit. You can check out Cole’s Flickr page over here. Related posts: Is there anything Teju Cole can’t do? Teju Cole, author of Open City (which John Knight reviewed... Teju...Show More Summary
The Empathy Gap
The fascinating Teju Cole talks to Mother Jones about drones, Twitter activism, and identity:
TC: Killing a bunch of people in Sudan and Yemen and Pakistan, it's like, "Who cares—we don't know them." But the current discussion is framed...Show More Summary
Rand Paul’s CIA Filibuster and ‘Iron Man 3?s Fantasy Of Tony Stark As The Ideal Drone
Inspired by Teju Cole, who has begun writing microfictions that make famous literary characters the target of drone strikes, and Bones‘ recent episode in which a terrorist hacked a drone and aimed it at an Afghan girls’ school, I’ve been thinking a great deal recently about the depictions of remote killing devices in our culture, [...]
Teju Cole on the "Empathy Gap" and Tweeting Drone Strikes
"Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. Pity. A signature strike leveled the florist's." Thus begins a series of tweets from the writer Teju Cole, each one a famous novel's opening line rudely interrupted by drones. HeShow More Summary
Novelist Who Finds Obama 'Elegant' Can't Understand How He Could Lead Such A 'Brutal' Drone War
In the most recent issue of The New Yorker, photographer and writer Teju Cole describes President Barack Obama as "an elegant and literate man with a cosmopolitan sense of the world" who is "in the line of Jefferson and Lincoln." HeShow More Summary
Teju Cole On President Obama’s Drone Program—And His Reading List
I always spending time in the novelist Teju Cole’s head, and I was struck by his most recent piece in the New Yorker, a meditation on how President Obama, whose billing of himself as a serious reader has been a way of selling him as a serious, empathetic man, has also become an active user [...]
Re: How Can a President Who Reads Moby Dick Use Drones?
Katherine — What precisely has given Teju Cole the idea that Obama is a man “for whom an imaginative engagement with literature is inseparable from life.” With the exception of Obama’s having written two books about himself before he’d actually done anything and some astonishingly fatuous criticism of T. Show More Summary
How Can a President Who Reads Moby Dick Use Drones?
Teju Cole, a novelist who lives in Brooklyn, has written an essay on the The New Yorker ’s website attempting to reconcile Barack Obama, drone warrior, with Barack Obama, the man “for whom an imaginative engagement with literature is inseparable from life.” There was a feeling during the years of George W. Show More Summary
Teju Cole, Drones, ‘Zero Dark Thirty,’ And The Limits Of Literature
Novelist Teju Cole is Twitter’s foremost literary entrepreneur. His “Small Fates” project, which compresses a person’s life and death down to 140 characters, is a fascinating exercise in probing Twitter’s limits as an art form. But I’m profoundly ambivalent about his newest project, a series of Tweeted musings on the American drone program. On the [...]
Teju Cole Mixes Classic Lit & Drones on Twitter
Novelist Teju Cole published “Seven short stories about drones” on Twitter, mixing in violent unmanned aerial vehicle imagery with classic first lines from literature.
Web artist Josh Begley collected the short stories in a Storify post (embedded below).
The short short stories referenced seven famous novels. Show More Summary
Seven Short Stories about Drones
Fiction writer Teju Cole posted seven short stories about drones on Twitter yesterday—well, seven famous works of literature truncated by drone strikes. Here's the first: The other six stories are right here. (By the way, look forward...Show More Summary
Here Are Seven (Very) Short Stories About Drones by Award-Winning Author Teju Cole
Teju Cole, the novelist, essayist, art historian and master tweeter, wrote seven short stories about drones — the unmanned aerial vehicles used by the U.S. for covert assassination in foreign countries — on his Twitter feed yesterday. Here they are. More »
"Jungle Justice"
Reeling in horror at the lynching of four students in southern Nigeria earlier this month, Teju Cole explores the embrace of mob violence in Nigeria: One of the chief characteristics of a mob is its quickness. It is sudden. It...
Teju Cole, Open City
Contemporary fiction, especially if it is written in first-person
point of view, often suffers from the criticism that it is too
introverted and navel-gazing in character. Sometimes, the lead
protagonist is fascinating enough by himShow More Summary
Is there anything Teju Cole can’t do?
Teju Cole, author of Open City (which John Knight reviewed for us), is quite the photographer. You can get a glimpse of his Flickr stream over here. Related posts: Teju Cole on the Leonard Lopate Show Something you should hear: OpenShow More Summary
Teju Cole meets V.S. Naipaul
If you have five minutes to spare this evening, then read this account of meeting V.S. Naipaul written by Teju Cole. Writing from the covetable position of a column in… Continue reading The post Teju Cole meets V.S. Naipaul appeared first on Spectator Blogs.
Not what he, nor I, expected.
Teju Cole on partying, though very civilly, with V.S. Naipaul: “The combination of ego, tenderness, and sly provocation was typical.” Related posts: Teju Cole on the Leonard Lopate Show Something you should hear: Open City author and prolific tweeter... The Naipaul Test V.S. Show More Summary
Double Shot of Granta
Here’s a double shot of Recommended Reading courtesy of Granta: Open City author Teju Cole on going blind, and Book of Clouds author Chloe Aridjis on Soviet-era cosmonauts. Related posts: Granta’s Horror Issue Granta‘s “Horror” issue...Show More Summary
Blind For A Day
Teju Cole reflects on a sudden bout of near blindness: As I had eaten nothing all day, I went into a diner. It wasn’t particularly full but I sat at the counter because it was near the door, and I...
Reconciliation
FDR was using charts in budget requests way back in 1945. Teju Cole on going blind. Adam Serwer on why Romney’s “birther” joke wasn’t funny. Forget Tampa Bay. Hurricane Isaac could ravage Haiti. It ain’t easy being a monarch during austerity.
