#Afterword: Everyday is for the thief

Posted: 22 March 2016 Author: uwrf

“There is a kind of intense and thrumming energy in the mundane. This is a book that’s full of completely ordinary things; it registers something that everybody knows, yet nobody ever bothers to describe. You have to find an angle that makes the mundane visible”.

In today’s #Afterword podcast, Nigerian-American author (and one of the most poignant authors to grace the #UWRF15 stage) Teju Cole reflects on the writing process that made his works Open City and Everyday Is for the Thief such globally-relatable pieces of literature.

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