Fiction. 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.

Author Hometown: DURHAM, NC USA



About the author: Joe Ashby Porter is also the author of The Kentucky Stories, a Pulitzer Prize nominee, Lithuania: Short Stories and TOUCH WOOD, and the novels Eelgrass, Resident Aliens, THE NEAR FUTURE, and ALL ABOARD. He is the winner of the 2004 Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Shakespeare scholar at Duke University.