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Brick Lane Bookshop @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social · 2d

🚀 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 · 1d

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 · 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 · 4d

London 🇬🇧 • Oct 9 • Come see us!

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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Brick Lane Bookshop @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social · 5d

🚀 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 · 5d

London! 🇬🇧 Next Thursday (Oct 9)

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 · 7d

Can’t wait! 🙂

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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 7d

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

Sudha Balagopal @sudhab.bsky.social · 8d

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 · 12d

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

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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 12d

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

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Sabrina Hicks @sabrinahicks.bsky.social · 12d

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 · 12d

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

Brick Lane Bookshop @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social · 12d

📚 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 · 12d

So lovely to meet everyone in person!

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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 12d

Thank you, Dan! Sorry I missed you too!

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Sudha Balagopal @sudhab.bsky.social · 12d

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 · 13d

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 · 13d

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

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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 14d

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

Sheila Black @sheilafionab.bsky.social · 14d

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 · 14d

Thank you, Neil!

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Sheila Black @sheilafionab.bsky.social · 15d

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 · 15d

“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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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 14d

Can’t wait!

Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 15d

Looking forward to it too!

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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 15d

Matt! Thank you so much for the incredibly kind words about my novel! They mean so much, especially coming from you. I’m so happy to know you enjoyed it, and looking forward to seeing you soon!🙂

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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you so much, @mdbell79.bsky.social!

Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 15d

I loved THE IMAGINED LIFE by @andrewporter01.bsky.social so much. I was just telling my partner the other day that it’s been a long time since a novel made me cry. Well, I’m happy to report we can reset that clock. The end of this one crushed me, in the best way. I needed it.

Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you, @mdbell79.bsky.social ! 🙏🙂

Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 15d

“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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