09.18.2009 | Blog : book club, debut story collection, Michigan MFA news, short story collection
Say You’re One of Them is Oprah Book Club pick!!
By Anne Stameshkin
Warm congratulations, Uwem. FWR is thrilled that so many more people will know about and read your stories because of this endorsement. And Oprah, kudos for picking a story collection!
Learn more about Say You’re One of Them here; read “An Ex-Mas Feast,” the collection’s first story (previously published in the New Yorker); and check out FWR Associate Editor Jeremiah Chamberlin’s interview with Uwem (for Granta).
Congratulations, Uwem! This is exciting news! I can’t wait for so many new readers to discover your work.
And congratulations also for receiving one of the PEN American/Beyond Margins Awards this year. Both are well deserved honors.
We miss you here in Ann Arbor.
This just in: Little, Brown is printing 650,000 copies of the book: http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6697705.html
And I think Uwem is on Oprah TODAY!
Phenomenal!