Akpan

Juxtaposed against the clarity and revelation in Akpan's prose - a s translucent a style as I've read in a long while - we find subjects that nearly render the mind helpless and throw the heart into a hopeless erratic rhythm out of fear, out of pity, out of the shame of being only a few degrees of separation removed from these monstrous modern circumstances ...

Say You're One of Them: Summary and book reviews of Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan. 2008

Now each time I return to Ikot Akpan Eda, my home, I ask my parents and old people a lot of questions.

Uwem Akpan - An interview with author 2010

After publishing "An Ex-Mas Feast", one of the stories in his first collection Say You're One of Them (2008), in The New Yorker’s Début Fiction issue, Akpan discussed his writing with Cressida Leyshon, deputy fiction editor

Uwem Akpan - An interview with author 2010

Browse an author interview and biography of Uwem Akpan.

Uwem Akpan - An interview with author 2010

After publishing "An Ex-Mas Feast", one of the stories in his first collection Say You're One of Them (2008), in The New Yorker’s Début Fiction issue, Akpan discussed his writing with Cressida Leyshon, deputy fiction editor

Uwem Akpan - An interview with author 2010

Browse an author interview and biography of Uwem Akpan.

Uwem Akpan - An interview with author 2010

Now each time I return to Ikot Akpan Eda, my home, I ask my parents and old people a lot of questions.

Uwem Akpan - An interview with author 2010

"I think everybody kind of knew that I wanted to stick it through," Akpan says.

Beau Dure: Why College Soccer Still Produces Pro Talent 2010

More typical than Akpan are players that floated under the radar in their youth careers and developed into elite players in their college years.

Beau Dure: Why College Soccer Still Produces Pro Talent 2010

Akpan is part of a disappearing group of players who excel in international youth play -- in his case, a stellar run with the U.S.

Beau Dure: Why College Soccer Still Produces Pro Talent 2010