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Teju Cole
Born
in The United States
June 27, 1975
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illustrirte
"Because of an early spelling mistake, the masthead of the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung was printed with a spelling error all through the fifty years of its existence."
István Deák, Weimar Germany's Left-Wing Intellectuals: A Political History of the Weltbühne and Its Circle, 1968, p.40
op. cit., p. 153
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Open City
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2011
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6 editions
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Every Day Is for the Thief
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2007
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37 editions
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Known and Strange Things: Essays
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published
2016
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27 editions
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Tremor
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published
2023
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2 editions
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Blind Spot
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2017
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7 editions
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Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time
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published
2021
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4 editions
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Eight Letters to a Young Writer
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Fernweh
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Kerry James Marshall: History of Painting
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Golden Apple of the Sun
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2021
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“Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air pressure, a different psychic weight: the bright lights and shuttered shops, the housing projects and luxury hotels, the fire escapes and city parks.”
― Open City
― Open City
“To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone.”
― Open City
― Open City
“Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own stories.”
― Open City
― Open City
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