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Conversations Tope leads, interviews about his own work, and appearances across literature and public life.
Conversations hosted by Tope
Writers, artists, and thinkers in dialogue. Recordings appear newest first.
12 entries
Miguel Ángel Hernández + Tope Folarin
The Pain of Others
Karl Ove Knausgaard + Tope Folarin
The School of Night
Oyinkan Braithwaite + Tope Folarin
Cursed Daughters
Rabih Alameddine + Tope Folarin
The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)
Denice Frohman + Tope Folarin
The Writing Life · Poetry, basketball, and music
Leila Aboulela + Tope Folarin
Lannan Center · Readings and Talks
Rabih Alameddine + Meghan O’Rourke + Daniel Marchalik + Tope Folarin
Surviving in the Aftermath · 2023 Lannan Symposium
Abdulrazak Gurnah + Tope Folarin
Afterlives · Sixth & I
Tomás Q. Morín + Morgan Talty + Tope Folarin
Past Pain, Future Hope: Perseverance in Literature · National Book Festival
Dayo Olopade + David Smith + Tope Folarin
Lessons in Democracy · 2019 Lannan Symposium
Martin Amis + Tope Folarin
The Rub of Time
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Audio conversations
Interviews & appearances
Tope on his own work, along with readings and panel appearances. Recordings appear newest first.
15 entries
Metamodern Fiction
With Tope Folarin, Peter Clarke, and Daniel Garner · Hosted by Greg Dember · What Is Metamodern?
Who Counts as a Human Being?
Tope Folarin’s opening address · 2026 Henry A. Wallace Symposium. Recording also includes Sarah Anderson’s policy presentation.
Metamodernism and Autofiction: A Discussion with Tope Folarin
How to Survive in the Book Criticism Landscape
Tope Folarin · Whiting Award Reading
2021 Whiting Award for Fiction
Literary Conversations: Intersections
Craft Happy Hour with Tope Folarin
Tope Folarin: A Particular Kind of Black Man
Decolonizing the Mind | 2019 Lannan Symposium
African Futures | 2019 Lannan Symposium
Caine Prize for African Fiction Recipient
Conversations with African Poets & Writers: Tope Folarin
Writing Precarity | 2014 Lannan Symposium
Tope Folarin | 2013–2014 Lannan Readings and Talks
The Scholars: Tope Folarin
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Interviews & podcasts
31 entries
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In the press
20 entries
Tope Folarin, Morehouse grad, wins prestigious Whiting Award with debut novel
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Arrival: On Tope Folarin’s “A Particular Kind of Black Man”
Los Angeles Review of Books
A Nigerian-American Bildungsroman, in Mormon Country
The New York Times
ES magazine's summer reading list
Evening Standard
What to Read for Summer 2019
The Kojo Nnamdi Show
4 Writers to Watch This Summer
The New York Times
Debut novels and rising star writers to look out for in 2019
Culture Whisper · archived article
Tope Folarin finds his place in the literary world
The Washington Post
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