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Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún takes the family on holiday, and Tod Seelie returns to the underground noise-punk world


Today: Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún, Nigerian writer, linguist, co-editor of Best Literary Translations, founder of Olongo Africa, and writer and producer of the documentary, Ebrohimie Road; and Tod Seelie, photographer and author of BRIGHT NIGHTS: Photographs of Another New York.


Issue No. 552

New Orleans the Long Way
Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún

Still With the Band
Tod Seelie


New Orleans the Long Way

by Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún

“Let’s drive to New Orleans!” I said in February—an impulsive suggestion that had emerged not from contemplation or planning, but out of whimsy. In Minnesota, the trees remained dead from the weight of winter, and every few weeks the snow threatened to return, keeping the dream of spring away.

“You sure?” my wife asked.

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