Teju Cole talks about how his literary education really began when he grabbed books randomly off the shelf to read during his morning commute to a short internship as an exchange student in Boston.
The three books (The Old Man and the Sea, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and The Catcher in the Rye) that he read during this time left an impression not only on him but also on his new, award-winning novel, Open City.
See the YouTube video of Cole's archival interview at the Writers Institute, February 10, 2012.
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012
The Beginnings of His Literary Education
Monday, March 19, 2012
"Any Similarity is Coincidental"
"This is an artwork by Richard Prince. Any similarity to a book is coincidental and not intended by the artist."
Copyright-wronging contemporary artist Richard Prince features the above disclaimer on his controversial "sculpture," a precise facsimile edition of J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, with the attribution, "a novel by Richard Prince."
Bob Nickas, art critic and curator who visits on Monday, March 26th, writes about Prince and Salinger, their respective works of art and their various legal battles, in Vice.
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