This writer responded to Kony 2012 with a series of Tweets that coined the term (*) "white savior industrial complex.
The protagonist of a novel by this author walks into a cathedral in Brussels where he hears a recording of a Baroque piece ruined by the noise of a vacuum cleaner. One of his novels ends with the main character clambering down a fire escape from a Mahler concert and joining a college party aboard a yacht. The main character of that novel by him is utterly devastated when his gay former literature professor Dr. Saito dies of cancer. This writer responded to Kony 2012 with a series of Tweets that coined the term (*) "white savior industrial complex." The 2017 book Blind Spot collects several photographs by this author, who writes the "On Photography" column for The New York Times. After breaking up with his girlfriend Nadege, the psychiatric resident Julius wanders the streets of Manhattan in this author's best-known novel. For 10 points, name this contemporary Nigerian-American novelist of Open City.
The protagonist of a novel by this author walks into a cathedral in Brussels where he hears a recording of a Baroque piece ruined by the noise of a vacuum cleaner.
Teju Cole