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Nov 2023
20m 48s

Teju Cole Reads “Incoming”

WNYC STUDIOS AND THE NEW YORKER
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Teju Cole reads his story “Incoming,” which appears in the December 4, 2023, issue of the magazine. Cole, a winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Windham Campbell Literature Prize, is a novelist, critic, curator, and essayist. His novel “Tremor” was published earlier this year and a new book, “Pharmakon,” a collection of prose pieces and photographs, wil ... Show More
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