Joe Ashby Porter – författare

The author of "Eelgrass" and "The Kentucky Stories" now offers a collection of "mysterious and beautiful" (Lee Smith) stories, "as subtle, syntactically graceful, and beautiful as any I've seen" (Toby Olson).

Ashby Porter creates a world of flowering sadness, Spanish Moss and trailer parks. It is a tale of love ruined under the burning Florida sun amid phantasmagorical settings where present and future, life and death, love and aggression become entangled. The Near Future is a little jewel of a book, a very funny novel about getting - among other things - old, and in Florida, and with less than one's entire dignity in tact. Porter's comic imagination is of the truly droll sort, he homes very closely upon the truth. - Richard Ford

Pulitzer Prize-nominee Joe Ashby Porter has created a new collection of innovative short stories which range across the US and Europe and acknowledge the sway of chance and contingency in our lives. |Porter's stories fuse fact and unlikelyhood, reality and the uncanny. They are irresistibly readable| - Richard Wilbur |One of the most consistently rewarding writers in the US and among the most intelligently exciting| - Stephen Dixon |It's his humanity that astonishes me| - E. White