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SUMMARY:Teju Cole in conversation with David Levi Strauss & Emmanuel I
 duma
DESCRIPTION:\"Words Against Photographs\"\nPresented by the MFA progra
 m in Art Criticism & Writing.Teju Cole is the author of two works of 
 fiction that radically expand our understanding of diaspora and disloc
 ation in the 21st century. Cole was born in the US to Nigerian parents
 , raised in Lagos, and currently resides in New York City, which serve
 s as both setting and subject of Open City (2011). The novel, which 
 documents the roaming thoughts and encounters of a Nigerian-German psy
 chiatrist, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award a
 nd earned Cole a PEN/Hemingway Award, the Rosenthal Award of the Ameri
 can Academy of Arts and Letters, and frequent comparisons to W.G. Seba
 ld. In Every Day Is for the Thief, published in 2007 in Nigeria and i
 n 2014 in the US, a dual American and Nigerian citizen travels from hi
 s home in New York to Lagos and finds himself a stranger. Every Day 
 features original photographs by the author, and was named a Book of t
 he Year byThe New York Times, The Telegraph, The Globe and Mail, and
  NPR. Cole is the Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College,
  photography critic of the New York Times Magazine, and is currently
  at work on a nonfiction book about contemporary Lagos.David Levi Stra
 uss is the author of Words Not Spent Today Buy Smaller Images Tomor
 row (Aperture, 2014), From Head to Hand: Art and the Manual (Oxford
  University Press, 2010), Between the Eyes: Essays on Photography and
  Politics, with an introduction by John Berger (Aperture, 2003; and i
 n a new edition, 2012), and Between Dog & Wolf: Essays on Art and Pol
 itics (Autonomedia, 1999; and a new edition with a prolegomenon by Ha
 kim Bey, 2010). Strauss was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2003 and received t
 he Infinity Award for Writing from the International Center of Photogr
 aphy in 2007.Emmanuel Iduma is the author of the novel Farad (Parre
 sia, 2012), and the co-editor of Gambit: Newer African Writing (The 
 Mantle, 2014). He has worked as editor of 3bute.com, co-publisher ofS
 araba Magazine, and with Invisible Borders, a group of traveling phot
 ographers and writers that will be included in the 2015 Venice Biennal
 e. He is currently a student in the MFA program in Art Criticism & Wri
 ting at SVA.\n\nFor more information visit http://conectom.leimay.org/
 events/teju-cole-in-conversation-with-david-levi-strauss-emmanuel-idum
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LOCATION:SVA Theatre
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