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Teju Cole and Max Liu: Open City
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Length:
61 minutes
Released:
Aug 30, 2012
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Podcast episode
Description
Teju Cole came to the Bookshop to discuss his first novel, Open City. The book, which follows a young Nigerian-German psychiatrist in New York City five years after 9/11, was named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and won both the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Internationaler Literaturpreis. Cole spoke in conversation with writer and journalist Max Liu. Their discussion took in the cities of Lagos, London and New York; W.G. Sebald; twitter as a literary medium; and the disturbing revelation which closes the novel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Released:
Aug 30, 2012
Format:
Podcast episode
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