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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 20h

Thanks so much for the kind words about The Imagined Life, Nick! So happy you’re enjoying! And yes, Daunt Books is amazing!

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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 20h

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! ❤️

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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 21h

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

Fraser McGowan @drmcgowan.bsky.social · 18d

Good morning. I'm reading this elegaic novel about a man determined to find out the truth about his late father, a man who seems both strange and familiar to him. It's so beautifully written that, before you know it, you're halfway through it.

💙📚 #Booksky #Reading

A copy of The Imagined Life by Andrew Porter (London: Europa Editions, 2025).

The cover is an oil painting-like image of a Californian poolside at dusk. Through the patio doors on the right of the image, a sitting room is just visible, illuminated by electric light. The predominant colours are blue and orange.

The book itself is held up against a bookcase.

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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 21h

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

Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 7d

Bookshops of London. This time we went to London Review Bookshop & Daunt Books. I purchased myself this👇🏻& I’m very much enjoying it (it’s about wonky parenting in 80’s LA…just like my upbringing in Bradford although instead of pools I had puddles, instead of palm trees we had rusty swings & dog poo)

The cover of THE IMAGINED LIFE by Andrew Porter. It shows a very LA flat roofed house with pool and palm trees at dusk. An orange glow coming from a large patio window.

A painting called ‘Desert Modern’ by Caroline Walker, 2016.

The interior of Daunt Books in Marylebone bookshop in London. Lots of books on shelves, a wooden floor and staircase descending to another floor below, lovely thick wooden banisters. A skylight above and a rounded window at the rear of the shop let in lots of light. People browse and flick through the books. A beautiful room.

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Brick Lane Bookshop @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Brick Lane Bookshop @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social · 4d

🚀 Book Launch: The Imagined Life
Oct 9 | 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

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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 3d

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

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Brick Lane Bookshop @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social · 6d

🚀 Book Launch: The Imagined Life
Oct 9 | 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

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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 6d

London 🇬🇧 • Oct 9 • Come see us!

Brick Lane Bookshop @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social · 6d

🚀 Book Launch: The Imagined Life
Oct 9 | 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

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Brick Lane Bookshop @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social · 7d

🚀 Book Launch: The Imagined Life
Oct 9 | 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

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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 8d

London! 🇬🇧 Next Thursday (Oct 9)

Brick Lane Bookshop @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social · 8d

🚀 Book Launch: The Imagined Life
Oct 9 | 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

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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 9d

Can’t wait! 🙂

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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 9d

Honored and excited to be the Selecting Eddie the @wigleaf.bsky.social Too 50 2026!

Sudha Balagopal @sudhab.bsky.social · 10d

It is my pleasure to share that @andrewporter01.bsky.social will be the Guest Selecting Editor for the @wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50 2026! Andrew Porter's latest book, The Imagined Life, has received many accolades and has been called, "One of the best books of the year," by Esquire.

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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 14d

And thank you so much for the very kind words about The Imagined life, Sabrina! 🙂

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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 14d

So nice to finally meet you both in person! Thanks for the wonderful questions, Matt!

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Sabrina Hicks @sabrinahicks.bsky.social · 14d

Huge honor to hear @andrewporter01.bsky.social read from his book THE IMAGINED LIFE (my favorite book of the year) and @mdbell79.bsky.social to moderate. And got to see my AZ writer friends! Great evening! 🙏

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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 14d

London! So excited for this event on Oct 9! 👇

Brick Lane Bookshop @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social · 14d

📚 Don’t miss the launch of The Imagined Life by Andrew Porter — a powerful novel of love, memory & secrets in 1980s California.

📍Brick Lane Bookshop
🗓️ Oct 9 | 🎟️ Tickets: bricklanebookshop.org/product/book...

Reading, Q&A, signing with special guest Curtis Garner.
@europaeditions.bsky.social

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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 14d

So lovely to meet everyone in person!

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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you, Dan! Sorry I missed you too!

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Sudha Balagopal @sudhab.bsky.social · 14d

Wonderful to attend a reading by @andrewporter01.bsky.social and @sallywenmao.bsky.social moderated by @mdbell79.bsky.social at Changing Hands in Tempe yesterday. And it was great to see you @stephanieaustin.bsky.social @sabrinahicks.bsky.social @rudribhattpatel.bsky.social @karakahnke.bsky.social 💜

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Sheila Black @sheilafionab.bsky.social · 15d

Final reminder. @andrewporter01.bsky.social, Sally Wen Mao, and @mdbell79.bsky.social Tonight at Changing Hands, Tempe. It is free. And it is going to be fabulous. Stop by if you can!

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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 16d

A blast from the past. I like that it’s on there too! 🙂

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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 16d

Tempe/Phoenix area! So exited for this even tomorrow! 😍

Sheila Black @sheilafionab.bsky.social · 16d

Once more with mega feeling. I'm so excited to have @andrewporter01.bsky.social, Sally Wen Mao, & @mdbell79.bsky.social all in the house. Tomorrow, 7pm, Changing Hands, Tempe. www.changinghands.com/event/septem...

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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 17d

Thank you, Neil!

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Sheila Black @sheilafionab.bsky.social · 17d

You can join @mdbell79.bsky.social @andrewporter01.bsky.social and Sally Wen Mao for a free reading tomorrow at Changing Hands Bookstore Tempe at 7pm. As my dad used to say, be there or be square! Save your spot at www.changinghands.com/event/septem...

Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 17d

“I used to picture what our lives might have been like had things gone differently... In many ways, it was a futile exercise, and yet it was still a thing I did, in the same way one might revisit a poor decision over and over again, even though in doing so nothing is changed, no solace is found.”

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