Document Type

Podcast

Publication Date

4-14-2011

Publisher

Black Mountain Institute; KNPR

Abstract

Nigerian Jesuit Uwem Akpan says his fiction-writing began in the late 1990s as a joke. But it's not a joke any more. In 2005, when he was finishing an MFA in creative writing at the University of Michigan, the New Yorker published one of his stories. And his collection, Say You're One of Them, was picked as a selection for the Oprah Book Club. He has been working on a new book as a fellow at the Black Mountain Institute at UNLV.

Keywords

Authorship; Creative writing; Fiction; Literature; Oral interpretation of fiction

Disciplines

Literature in English, Anglophone outside British Isles and North America | Modern Literature | Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies

Language

English

Comments

Audio file size: 13.1 megabytes

This audio segment is used with the gracious permission of "KNPR's State of Nevada" which podcasts many segments of its programs. See KNPR's website for more information.

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