A Conversation with Teju Cole

Chicago Humanities Festival
Chicago Humanities Festival
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Published 2024-02-08
What constitutes a meaningful life in a violent world? Join celebrated author and essayist Teju Cole (Open City) as he considers this question through his most recent work of fiction, Tremor. This poetic exploration continues Cole’s masterful examination of colonial atrocities, casual racism, and “history’s own brutality.” Don’t miss this Chicago Humanities experience with one of the most vibrant voices on today’s literary scene.

This program is part of the Social Justice and Equity Series supported by Allstate and ITW.

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All Comments (4)
  • @elenaalexander6138
    As for the subject of the interview, Teju Cole, I was surprised and pleased to hear his commentary on Schindler's List: surprised, because it was shown so long ago, though he's obviously thought about it for a log time, and pleased, because when my [late] mother and I went to see it—actually fortified, ahead of time, with tissues—we left the movie theater dry-eyed, and agreeing that it was sentimental, to the hilt, and wondering what all the fuss and praise was about? It's been a long time, but unless I've created a false memory, the wheeling out of the actual Mrs. Schindler, in a post-film sequence, was, for me, the final insult to the viewer's intellectual, and emotional, intelligence.
  • @elenaalexander6138
    I know I must be missing something, and it's here, somewhere, but who is the interviewer? Thanks.