It’s not too late to sign up! Happening in a few hours! Come join us and hear @ericscottryon.bsky.social talk about his beautiful debut novel!

Read an entire book yesterday. Giddy with summer free time. Up next:

I found some more books that can be read anytime during the year, but Pride Month seems like an excuse to show off what I’ve got to look forward to. Again, what would you choose, or what should I prioritise?

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/b... Sly Delmore Schwartz reference in this review of Andrew Porter's "The Imagined Life," on the list for the Twain Prize. Congrats to Andrew Porter.

Incredibly honored and thrilled to learn that my novel The Imagined Life has been longlisted for the 2026 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award!!✨ marktwainhouse.org/2026/05/28/t...

Grateful for the nice early press from Spain about the Spanish translation of The Imagined Life,, including a kind shoutout as a “title to watch” in Vogue España! 🇪🇸 www.vogue.es/articulos/no...

So excited to share that the Spanish translation of my novel The Imagined Life (La Vida Imaginada) is now available in this beautiful edition from Muñeca Infinita Editorial, translated by Ce Santiago! 🇪🇸 If you are interested in ordering a copy, you can here: munecainfinita.com/producto/la-...

Library haul I’ll be bringing to a writing retreat next week.

Mark your calendars! 👇

Long-listed for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, The Imagined Life by Andrew Porter, is "a probing, nostalgic novel about the impossibility of understanding one’s parents, … about the unbreakable bonds between a father and a son." Out now! #books

Absolutely thrilled to share that my new short story collection, THE LETTERS, will be published by @aaknopf next spring!!! I’m so grateful to be working again with my brilliant editor, Diana Tejerina Miller, and the rest of the amazing team at Knopf!

If you enjoy reading and talking about short stories, this is the substack for you.

Just joined Substack. If you’re interested in following, I’ll be posting about short story collections at @andrewporterwriter!

Incredibly honored and thrilled to learn that The Imagined Life is a finalist for the International LATTES GRINZANE Book Prize!! 🇮🇹 Here's the press release: fondazionebottarilattes.it/premio-latte...

Excited to be moderating the panel “MEMOIRS: FAMILY FUNCTION & DYSFUNCTION” with brilliant memoirists @amandauhle.bsky.social and Stefan Merrill Block at the San Antonio Book Festival this Saturday (4/11) at 3:00 PM at the Launch SA Center! #SABF sabookfestival.org/schedule-eve...

Join us in congratulating our fiction selections for the 2026 Best of the Net issue. Special thanks to @andrewporter01.bsky.social for judging. #bestofthenet #fiction

Honored to be included in this year's Best of the Net anthology! Huge thanks to @andrewporter01.bsky.social, @keithlesmeister.bsky.social, and the editors! bestofthenetanthology.com/2026-2/2026-...

Pour one out for the GOAT. You can’t be a literary interviewer without reckoning with the work and influence of Michael Silverblatt. Ours is not a large tribe—especially not over time. Very few people devote decades to this oddball, obsessive niche. I should know. 1/

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Extremely honored to be lonlisted for the 2026 Joyce Carol Oates Prize!

Thank you, Eric! 🙂

I had a blast doing this Writer’s Desk interview with Gemini Ink. You can read the full interview on their website. Also, If you’re interested, I will be offering a two-part Zoom lecture with Gemini Ink in February. Details at this link: geminiink.org/the-writers-...

Thank you to Ron Spatz and Alaska Quarterly Review for inviting me to read my short story “Mennonites” (originally published in AQR) as part of the Alaska Quarterly Review “ Pièces de Résistance” Reading Series. You can listen to the entire story at this link: m.youtube.com/watch?v=hkZJ...

Excited to be be giving a craft lecture on setting and atmosphere as part of @geminiink.bsky.social’s Literary Masters Series this spring. If you’re interested in registering, you can find more info on Gemini Ink’s website: Geminiink.org.

Excited and honored to be the 2026 Fiction judge for the Best of the Net Anthology! ✨

Announcing our 2026 Fiction judge for the Best of the Net Anthology: @andrewporter01.bsky.social Check out all our judges at bestofthenetanthology.com/2026-judges/

Spent my morning drinking coffee, reading the @andrewporter01.bsky.social story in this year's BASS, and writing the intro for then publishing this @livesinpages.bsky.social story. Pretty great start to the day! (Now I gotta spend the rest of it prepping for tomorrow's first day of the semester...)

Best of 2025: Andrew Porter

a beautiful and haunting story about friendship, art, and the muddle of one's life in their 20s. This story, I think, serves as a kind of coda to @andrewporter01.bsky.social collection "The Disappeared." The story here is available to read online thru 12/21 www.cincinnatireview.com/articles/vig...

Absolutely love this story by @andrewporter01.bsky.social @cincinnatireview.bsky.social 👇🏽

Excited to have a new story (“Vigil”) in the latest issue of @cincinnatireview.bsky.social! It’s free on their site through Sunday! www.cincinnatireview.com/articles/vig...

So thrilled to see my novel The Imagined Life selected as one of Esquire’s “Best Books of 2025!” www.esquire.com/entertainmen...

Thank you so much, @ericscottryon.bsky.social!

Congratulations to Anju Sharma and the other finalists! This was a delight to judge!

Extremely honored to be longlisted for the 2026 Joyce Carol Oates Prize! And especially honored to be included among this stunning group of authors!  www.newliteraryproject.org/whats-new/20...

A huge thank you to The New Yorker for including The Imagined Life among The Best Books of 2025! ❤️

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!

My little big Texas book tour for I HAVE NOT CONSIDERED CONSEQUENCES is done. Austin/San Antonio - yay! Big thanks to @thetwigbookshop.bsky.social and Bookwoman, @ramoreeves.bsky.social for organizing it all, and @andrewporter01.bsky.social for reading with me. 💜 🐻 @autumnhousepress.bsky.social

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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!

Thank you so much, @willmusgrove.bsky.social! 🙂🙏

Sundays are for reading books by @andrewporter01.bsky.social 💙

Last day to submit!! ⬇️

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!!!

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! ❤️

Thank you so much, @drmcgowan.bsky.social! 🙂

Thank you so much for the kind words, @nicktankard.bsky.social! I just visited both of those bookstores in the past couple days myself! 🙂

TONIGHT! 🚀 Book Launch: The Imagined Life Brick Lane Bookshop | £6 Celebrate the release of The Imagined Life with award-winning author @andrewporter01.bsky.social, joined by Curtis Garner, author of Isaac. Expect a powerful evening of readings, conversation, Q&A, and signing. buff.ly/WZOMbpF