{"id":3869,"date":"2014-01-29T17:06:39","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T21:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=3869"},"modified":"2025-05-06T08:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T12:34:10","slug":"teju-cole-96-tweets-his-newest-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/teju-cole-96-tweets-his-newest-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Teju Cole \u201996 Tweets His Newest Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3871\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3871\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/01\/eju-Cole.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3871 size-medium\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/01\/eju-Cole-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Teju Cole at a microphone\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/01\/eju-Cole-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/01\/eju-Cole-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/01\/eju-Cole.jpg 948w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3871\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teju Cole<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Teju Cole \u201996<\/strong> has published a short story titled \u201cHafiz.\u201d Or, rather, his followers have published it on Twitter through a series of tweets and retweets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I took advantage of the hospitality of my friends and followers online by asking them to tweet out certain things,&#8221; he told National Public Radio\u2019s Rachel Martin recently. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/01\/eju-Cole-tweet1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3874 size-medium\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/01\/eju-Cole-tweet1-300x132.jpg\" alt=\"Tweet from runty reader\" width=\"300\" height=\"132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/01\/eju-Cole-tweet1-300x132.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/01\/eju-Cole-tweet1-1024x451.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/01\/eju-Cole-tweet1-500x220.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/01\/eju-Cole-tweet1.jpg 1120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;[W]hen I retweeted all of these things, in sequence, they all joined together to make a coherent story. It was just an idea, very much dependent on the generosity and kindness of the people I asked to participate, and I think it worked out quite interestingly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a sampling of the 30-plus tweets that compose the story:<\/p>\n<p><em>11:05 AM &#8211; 8 Jan 2014<\/em><br \/>\n<em>. . . to the subway, I saw a man on the ground. He sat on the sidewalk, under trees, with his feet out to the quiet street.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>11:14 AM &#8211; 8 Jan 2014<br \/>\n<em>There was a stillness in the scene, as in an altarpiece. There was a helpless air in those who stood around him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>12:07 PM &#8211; 8 Jan 2014<\/em><em><br \/>\nHe gave no indication of being aware of our presence. He was tranquil, wordless. The tears were falling from his eyes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>12:59 PM &#8211; 8 Jan 2014<br \/>\n<em>Coming close to take his pulse, I smelled alcohol. His tear-stained cheek shone. I placed a thumb on his wrist. His hand was cold.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Teju Cole is the author of critically acclaimed novel \u201cOpen City.&#8221; Listen to his interview with Martin and read &#8220;Hafiz&#8221; in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2014\/01\/16\/262473432\/forget-the-new-yorker-storyteller-turns-to-twitter?utm_medium=Email&amp;utm_source=share&amp;utm_campaign=\">National Public Radio report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teju Cole \u201996 has published a short story titled \u201cHafiz.\u201d Or, rather, his followers have published it on Twitter through a series of tweets and retweets. &#8220;I took advantage of the hospitality of my friends and followers online by asking them to tweet out certain things,&#8221; he told National Public Radio\u2019s Rachel Martin recently. &#8220;&#8230;[W]hen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":3871,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[31,112],"post_formats":[],"class_list":["post-3869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","tag-alumni","tag-poetry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - 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he told National Public Radio\u2019s Rachel Martin recently. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/01\/eju-Cole-tweet1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3874 size-medium\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/01\/eju-Cole-tweet1-300x132.jpg\" alt=\"Tweet from runty reader\" width=\"300\" height=\"132\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;[W]hen I retweeted all of these things, in sequence, they all joined together to make a coherent story. It was just an idea, very much dependent on the generosity and kindness of the people I asked to participate, and I think it worked out quite interestingly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a sampling of the 30-plus tweets that compose the story:<\/p>\n<p><em>11:05 AM &#8211; 8 Jan 2014<\/em><br \/>\n<em>. . . to the subway, I saw a man on the ground. He sat on the sidewalk, under trees, with his feet out to the quiet street.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>11:14 AM &#8211; 8 Jan 2014<br \/>\n<em>There was a stillness in the scene, as in an altarpiece. There was a helpless air in those who stood around him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>12:07 PM &#8211; 8 Jan 2014<\/em><em><br \/>\nHe gave no indication of being aware of our presence. He was tranquil, wordless. The tears were falling from his eyes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>12:59 PM &#8211; 8 Jan 2014<br \/>\n<em>Coming close to take his pulse, I smelled alcohol. His tear-stained cheek shone. I placed a thumb on his wrist. His hand was cold.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Teju Cole is the author of critically acclaimed novel \u201cOpen City.&#8221; Listen to his interview with Martin and read &#8220;Hafiz&#8221; in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2014\/01\/16\/262473432\/forget-the-new-yorker-storyteller-turns-to-twitter?utm_medium=Email&amp;utm_source=share&amp;utm_campaign=\">National Public Radio report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3869"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24768,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869\/revisions\/24768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3869"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=3869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}