Andrew Porter
@andrewporter01.bsky.social
Author of THE DISAPPEARED (Knopf), THE THEORY OF LIGHT AND MATTER (Vintage), IN BETWEEN DAYS (Knopf), and THE IMAGINED LIFE (Knopf, forthcoming 2025) CW Prof.
www.andrewporterwriter.com
www.andrewporterwriter.com
Honored to see The Imagined Life on NPR’s “Books We Love “ list for 2025! And grateful to NPR book critic Michael Schaub for these very kind words about the novel!
November 24, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Honored to see The Imagined Life on NPR’s “Books We Love “ list for 2025! And grateful to NPR book critic Michael Schaub for these very kind words about the novel!
San Antonio! I’ll be reading with the amazing @sherrieflick.bsky.social at @thetwigbookshop.bsky.social on Saturday (6 PM)! We’d love to see you!
November 12, 2025 at 7:43 PM
San Antonio! I’ll be reading with the amazing @sherrieflick.bsky.social at @thetwigbookshop.bsky.social on Saturday (6 PM)! We’d love to see you!
Excited to be on the @texasbookfest.bsky.social panel “Excavating the Past: Road Trips to Self Discovery” with author Annie Hartnett on Saturday, November 8 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM in the Capitol Extension Room E2.012 (moderated by Susannah Auby). Book signing to follow at 12:15 PM.
October 30, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Excited to be on the @texasbookfest.bsky.social panel “Excavating the Past: Road Trips to Self Discovery” with author Annie Hartnett on Saturday, November 8 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM in the Capitol Extension Room E2.012 (moderated by Susannah Auby). Book signing to follow at 12:15 PM.
Extremely honored and thrilled to see The Imagined Life longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction!!!
October 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Extremely honored and thrilled to see The Imagined Life longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction!!!
It’s truly a dream to have my story “Angelo” selected by Celeste Ng for this year’s edition of Best American Short Stories! Special thanks to Nicole Lamy and @marinerbooks.bsky.social and to Laila Lalami and Ladette Randolph for selecting it for @pshares.bsky.social (where it first appeared)!
October 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
It’s truly a dream to have my story “Angelo” selected by Celeste Ng for this year’s edition of Best American Short Stories! Special thanks to Nicole Lamy and @marinerbooks.bsky.social and to Laila Lalami and Ladette Randolph for selecting it for @pshares.bsky.social (where it first appeared)!
Had such a lovely time last night at the UK launch event for The Imagined Life at Brick Lane Bookshop in London! 🇬🇧 Huge thanks to author Curtis Garner for the amazing questions and to Millie Guille, Europa Editions and @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social for hosting! ❤️
October 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Had such a lovely time last night at the UK launch event for The Imagined Life at Brick Lane Bookshop in London! 🇬🇧 Huge thanks to author Curtis Garner for the amazing questions and to Millie Guille, Europa Editions and @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social for hosting! ❤️
London! 🇬🇧 This is happening THURSDAY at @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social! The UK Book Launch for the British edition of The Imagined Life! This Thus (Oct 9) I’ll be reading and talking with author Curtis Garner at 7 PM. If you’re in London, I would love to see you! ❤️ @alifeinbooks.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 9:32 AM
London! 🇬🇧 This is happening THURSDAY at @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social! The UK Book Launch for the British edition of The Imagined Life! This Thus (Oct 9) I’ll be reading and talking with author Curtis Garner at 7 PM. If you’re in London, I would love to see you! ❤️ @alifeinbooks.bsky.social
Absolutely thrilled with this incredibly generous and insightful review of The Imagined Life in Rain Taxi by reviewer and writer @jmfletcher15.bsky.social. I’ve been a longtime fan of the incisive reviews in Rain Taxi and am so honored to get such a kind and lovely review in their pages!
September 22, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Absolutely thrilled with this incredibly generous and insightful review of The Imagined Life in Rain Taxi by reviewer and writer @jmfletcher15.bsky.social. I’ve been a longtime fan of the incisive reviews in Rain Taxi and am so honored to get such a kind and lovely review in their pages!
A big thank you to J.D. Isip for interviewing me about The Imagined life for the September issue of the Blue Mountain Review! You can read the full interview here: t.co/OUSmdDHpK6
September 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
A big thank you to J.D. Isip for interviewing me about The Imagined life for the September issue of the Blue Mountain Review! You can read the full interview here: t.co/OUSmdDHpK6
London! 🇬🇧 So excited to be coming to the UK in October for the UK Book Launch for the British edition of The Imagined Life (Europa Editions)! On October 9, I’ll be reading & talking with author Curtis Garner at Brick Lane Bookshop in London. 7 PM. Details here: bricklanebookshop.org/product/book...
September 18, 2025 at 1:44 PM
London! 🇬🇧 So excited to be coming to the UK in October for the UK Book Launch for the British edition of The Imagined Life (Europa Editions)! On October 9, I’ll be reading & talking with author Curtis Garner at Brick Lane Bookshop in London. 7 PM. Details here: bricklanebookshop.org/product/book...
Arizona friends, I’ll be reading with Sally Wen Mao as part of Virginia G. Piper Center Distinguished Visiting Writers Series at Arizona State University in Tempe. September 25, 2025 at 7 PM at Changing Hands Bookstore, followed by a conversation moderated by @mdbell79.bsky.social!
September 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Arizona friends, I’ll be reading with Sally Wen Mao as part of Virginia G. Piper Center Distinguished Visiting Writers Series at Arizona State University in Tempe. September 25, 2025 at 7 PM at Changing Hands Bookstore, followed by a conversation moderated by @mdbell79.bsky.social!
One of my favorite mail days of the year! Congratulations to @loriostlund.bsky.social, Madeline Ffitch, Zack Salih, and others included in these pages! I was especially happy to see Jane Kalu’s story “Sickled” from America Short Fiction included, one of my favorites of the past year!
September 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
One of my favorite mail days of the year! Congratulations to @loriostlund.bsky.social, Madeline Ffitch, Zack Salih, and others included in these pages! I was especially happy to see Jane Kalu’s story “Sickled” from America Short Fiction included, one of my favorites of the past year!
So excited about this beautiful Spanish translation of The Disappeared (Despariciones) out this October from China Editora! I’m especially grateful to Caterina Gostisa for her care and careful attention with the book’s translation and design! 🇦🇷
September 2, 2025 at 1:39 PM
So excited about this beautiful Spanish translation of The Disappeared (Despariciones) out this October from China Editora! I’m especially grateful to Caterina Gostisa for her care and careful attention with the book’s translation and design! 🇦🇷
Grateful for this very kind review of my novel The Imagined Life in The Times Literary Supplement (UK)! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
www.the-tls.com/literature/f...
www.the-tls.com/literature/f...
August 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Grateful for this very kind review of my novel The Imagined Life in The Times Literary Supplement (UK)! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
www.the-tls.com/literature/f...
www.the-tls.com/literature/f...
Absolutely thrilled about this incredibly generous review of The Imagined Life in The Irish Times!
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
August 18, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Absolutely thrilled about this incredibly generous review of The Imagined Life in The Irish Times!
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
🇬🇧Today is the UK PUB DAY for The Imagined Life!! 🇬🇧✨ HUGE thanks to my brilliant UK editor Millie Guille and the whole team at @europaeditions.bsky.social
Thrilled that this beautiful edition is now available in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand! 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇳🇿
Thrilled that this beautiful edition is now available in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand! 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇳🇿
August 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🇬🇧Today is the UK PUB DAY for The Imagined Life!! 🇬🇧✨ HUGE thanks to my brilliant UK editor Millie Guille and the whole team at @europaeditions.bsky.social
Thrilled that this beautiful edition is now available in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand! 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇳🇿
Thrilled that this beautiful edition is now available in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand! 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇳🇿
Thrilled to see The Imagined Life featured as a summer reading recommendation in ELLE DECOR (Italy)!
August 6, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Thrilled to see The Imagined Life featured as a summer reading recommendation in ELLE DECOR (Italy)!
Honored to see The Imagined Life selected as one of “The 40 Books to Read on Vacation” this summer by Vanity Fair (Italy) and reviewed generously by Laura Pezzino!
July 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Honored to see The Imagined Life selected as one of “The 40 Books to Read on Vacation” this summer by Vanity Fair (Italy) and reviewed generously by Laura Pezzino!
Such a fun night at Kramers reading and chatting with @andrewbertaina.bsky.social about about our new books! Thank you so much to everyone who came out to the event!
July 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Such a fun night at Kramers reading and chatting with @andrewbertaina.bsky.social about about our new books! Thank you so much to everyone who came out to the event!
Thrilled to get a copy of @andrewbertaina.bsky.social’s new memoir, Ethan Hawke and Me, in the mail today! Can’t wait to read! 📚✨
July 15, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Thrilled to get a copy of @andrewbertaina.bsky.social’s new memoir, Ethan Hawke and Me, in the mail today! Can’t wait to read! 📚✨
Washington, D.C. 👇 This Friday! • 7PM • Kramers Books w/ @andrewbertaina.bsky.social Come see us!
July 15, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Washington, D.C. 👇 This Friday! • 7PM • Kramers Books w/ @andrewbertaina.bsky.social Come see us!
I love the FunZone! I was just there recently with my son and took that same ferry ride to Balboa Island with him. A little surreal! 🙂
July 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I love the FunZone! I was just there recently with my son and took that same ferry ride to Balboa Island with him. A little surreal! 🙂
Excited to have a new story (“Home”) in the new issue of IMAGE and especially honored to have work alongside the brilliant @andrewbertaina.bsky.social & @ladiwoods.bsky.social l, among others!
July 11, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Excited to have a new story (“Home”) in the new issue of IMAGE and especially honored to have work alongside the brilliant @andrewbertaina.bsky.social & @ladiwoods.bsky.social l, among others!
Friends in the Washington, D.C. area, I’ll be reading with the amazing @andrewbertaina.bsky.social at Kramer’s Books next Friday
(July 18) at 7 PM. If you’re in the area, we would love to see you!
(July 18) at 7 PM. If you’re in the area, we would love to see you!
July 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Friends in the Washington, D.C. area, I’ll be reading with the amazing @andrewbertaina.bsky.social at Kramer’s Books next Friday
(July 18) at 7 PM. If you’re in the area, we would love to see you!
(July 18) at 7 PM. If you’re in the area, we would love to see you!
It was such a delight to talk with Mitzi Rapkin about my new novel The Imagined Life of the First Draft podcast! You can list to out conversation here: t.co/HeQIRPW2Qo
July 8, 2025 at 2:11 PM
It was such a delight to talk with Mitzi Rapkin about my new novel The Imagined Life of the First Draft podcast! You can list to out conversation here: t.co/HeQIRPW2Qo