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October 27, 2008:
All Aboard
by Joe Ashby Porter (Turtle Point
Press) With All Aboard, acclaimed fiction writer Joe Ashby
Porter ventures into new, sometimes unprecedented territory, from
the luxe restraint of "Merrymount," through the stops-out eroticism
of "Pending," to the distilled heebie-jeebies of "Dream On." Here,
reading, travel, and sexual orientation (and disorientation) loom
larger than before in Porter, and the dialogue gives new play for
what Harry Mathews has called Porter's "golden ear." The whole
collection unfolds as does each component, laying track just ahead
of the speeding train of thought.
Joe Ashby Porter lives in Durham, North Carolina. As alter ego Shakespearean Joseph A Porter, he teaches at Duke University. Winner of the Academy Award (2004) from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, Porter is the author of three short story collections: The Kentucky Stories, Lithuania, and Touch Wood (Turtle Point, 2002); two novels: Eelgrass and Resident Aliens; and two nonfiction books on William Shakespeare. He has won Pushcart Prizes, NEA/PEN Syndicated Fiction awards, and fellowships from the NEA.
Review of All Aboard by D. Richard Scannell on Bookslut
Contemporary Authors: Biography - Porter, Joe Ashby (1942-)
Other titles discussed
Eelgrass by Joe Ashby Porter (New Directions) 1977
Kentucky Stories by Joe Ashby Porter (Johns Hopkins University Press) 1983
Lithuania: Short Stories by Joe Ashby Porter (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction: Johns Hopkins University Press) 1990
Touch Wood: Short Stories by Joe Ashby Porter (Turtle Point Press) 2002
The Near Future by Joe Ashby Porter (Turtle Point Press) 2006Resident Aliens by Joe Porter (New Amsterdam Books) 2000