

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: World Literature: Teju Cole, “Tremor”
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 29 Jun, 2025 at 03:00 pm
- **Event Description**: World Literature returns with fan-favorite moderator and curator for World Literature, Anderson Tepper, in conversation with Teju Cole, the owner of a “mind so agile that it’s easy to follow him anywhere” (The New Yorker). The two friends will discuss Teju’s most recent release, Tremor, which has received incredible acclaim, including the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and recognition as a Best Book of the Year from Time, The Washington Post, Financial Times, Vulture, the Chicago Public Library, and more. 

“Teju Cole’s books are events in themselves. They manage to freeze time and capture a moment—its preoccupations, premonitions, and faultlines. Open City, published in 2011, shifted the cultural landscape. Tremor, his latest, explores the undercurrents of a pre-pandemic calm, moving between an American college campus and Nigerian club scene. How do the pieces fit together, and what do they say about our shared present?” —Anderson Tepper, City of Asylum Curator for World Literature

A weekend spent antiquing is shadowed by the colonial atrocities that occurred on that land. A walk at dusk is interrupted by casual racism. A loving marriage is riven by mysterious tensions. And a remarkable cascade of voices speaks out from a pulsing metropolis.

Tremor is a startling work of realism and invention that engages brilliantly with literature, music, race, and history as it examines the passage of time and how we mark it. It is a reckoning with human survival amidst “history’s own brutality, which refuses symmetries and seldom consoles,” but it is also a testament to the possibility of joy. As he did in his magnificent debut, Open City, Teju Cole once again offers narration with all its senses alert, a surprising and deeply essential work from a beacon of contemporary literature.

You can purchase a copy of Teju’s book Tremor at City of Asylum Bookstore.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/pittsburgh/world-literature-teju-cole-tremor/200028385506418
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, sports
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 10

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://cityofasylum.org/program/teju-cole/?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=pittsburgh-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Pittsburgh
- **state**: PA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 40 W. North Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 15212
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- **long**: -80.0075
- **full address**: 40 W. North Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 15212

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- **organizer**: City of Asylum (https://allevents.in/org/city-of-asylum/2151497)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sun, 29 Jun, 2025 at 03:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 40 W. North Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 15212
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** City of Asylum
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, sports
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about World Literature: Teju Cole, “Tremor” ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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