Wonderful Review of The Imagined Life in The New York Times Book Review!

Thrilled about this smart and generous review of The Imagined Life in The New York Times Book Review by Rand Richards Cooper!

“A fascinating portrait…Foremost among Porter’s 20th-century forebears might be Richard Yates… Like Yates, Porter writes in a style that is lucid and unadorned… He is less caustic than Yates, and more forgiving; generosity, rather than contempt, is the animating impulse… The Imagined Life [is] endowed with sympathy and propelled by the mystery behind the Mills family’s undoing. You want to find out what happens.”—Rand Richards Cooper, The New York Times Book Review

My short story "Angelo" selected for the 2025 Best American Short Stories!

Absolutely thrilled to share that my short story “Angelo,” which originally appeared in Ploughshares, was selected by Celeste Ng for the 2025 Best American Short Stories! Having a story in Best American has been one of my literary dreams since I first started writing short stories back in college. Huge thanks to Celeste Ng and Nicole Lamy for choosing it and to Laila Lalami and Ladette Randolph for selecting it for Ploughshares before that!

Interview with Korean film actress Lee Chung-Ah

I was deeply honored and a bit starstruck to talk with acclaimed Korean film and television actress Lee Chung-Ah about the stories in The Disappeared on her channel MOCA. You can watch the interview in its entirrtey on the MOCA channel on YouTube.

2024 Seoul International Book Fair and Book Talks

I had an amazing week in Seoul last week and am grateful to everyone who came out to my book talk event in Seoul and to my book talk and book signing at the Seoul International Book Fair. Here are a few photos from the week.

New Short Story in Ploughshares

Incredibly honored to have my story “Angelo” chosen by the brilliant Laila Lalami for this special issue of Ploughshares alongside stories by Tommy Orange, Jane Smiley, and many other writers I admire! You can buy the issue here.