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There’s a dedicated website for Open City here. The book was the subject of a long and extraordinary review in the New Yorker. There was also a full review in the New York Times.
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A feature about Open City on National Public Radio. The page includes audio of an interview, a summary, a transcript, and an excerpt of the book.
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Two of my favorite interviews are this long audio one on Radio Open Source, and this one in print at 3AM Magazine. Other interviews: the Goodreads website, Tin House, PBS NewsHour.
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Various other links: One of my deepest interests is the way in which cities retain traces of the past. You can listen to an interview I gave on the BBC World Service, on which I discuss this idea. My essay Angels in Winter appeared in the African Cities Reader, and I’m a frequent contributor to the excellent online journal Qarrtsiluni. One of my brief essays on the 2010 World Cup appeared in Vanity Fair. The others are here. For about a year, I wrote Words Follow Me, a weekly literary arts column for the Nigerian newspaper NEXT.
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I have an active page on Facebook. All the latest news about my activities can be found there. I’m also very active on Twitter, where I’m mostly taking news reports taken from Nigerian newspapers and rewriting them in the style of Félix Fénéon.
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In addition to my creative writing, I’m a professional historian of art. I wrote an obituary of one of the art historians I admire most, Professor Michael Baxandall, here.
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Contact information: teju_AT_tejucole_DOT_com or, for formal requests, Andrew Wylie at the Wylie Agency.