Open City
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Teju Cole, author of the novel Open City, will speak on Feb. 21 in Devlin Hall, room 101 at 7 p.m. Open City, the story of a young Nigerian-German psychiatrist in New York City five years after 9/11, won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the New York City Book Award for Fiction, and the Rosenthal Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the New York Public Library Young Lions Award, and the Ondaatje Prize of the Royal Society of Literature. Cole, a writer, art historian and street photographer, is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College. Sponsor: Lowell Humanities Series