Stephen Akey

Stephen Akey is a memoirist and essayist who lives in Brooklyn, New York. He is the author of Raccoon Love, Culture Fever, Library, and College. His essays have appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, The New Republic, the Hedgehog Review, and elsewhere.

Don’t Mind the Maggots

In early September of 1978, I moved to New York City from northern Connecticut to attend graduate school ...