Teju Cole (born June 27, 1975) is a Nigerian-American writer, photographer, and art historian. Read full biography of Teju Cole →
Breughel is an example of an artist - I mean, this is true about artists and painters in general, but he is a specific example of an artist whose... →
I am a novelist. I traffic in subtleties, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing what to think. A good novel shouldn't... →
I am on Vine. It's another early-adopter kind of thing. I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do with it. What's interesting... →
I am suspicious of writers who say their work is original and influenced by nobody. If it is, it is probably uninteresting. The biggest source of... →
I'd like to meet fewer people who say 'Oh, I want to write a book, here are 10 pages I've written,' and more 'Oh, I want to write... →
I'm not trying to be a poet on Twitter; I'm trying to be aware of the fact that a very simple sentence, well written, can have a very moving... →
In 'Open City,' there is a passage that any reader of Joyce will immediately recognise as a very close, formal analogue of one the stories in... →
In a Transtromer poem, you inhabit space differently; a body becomes a thing, a mind floats, things have lives, and even non-things, even concepts... →
On many days my primary artistic struggle is, in fact, photography because it is harder to do good work with that. I see myself as an observer of the... →
Probably the biggest temptation that young writers face is to be entertaining, to show your bag of tricks and do a bit of tap dancing. I read a lot... →
The content of Saul Leiter's photographs arrives on a sort of delay: it takes a moment after the first glance to know what the picture is about.... →
The original sense of the word 'influence' is 'to flow into.' For the most part, these writers that I admire... their style flows... →
Throughout his career, W.G. Sebald wrote poems that were strikingly similar to his prose. His tone, in both genres, was always understated but... →
Teju Cole (born June 27, 1975) is a Nigerian-American writer, photographer, and art historian.