Six Bridges Book Festival: Andrew Porter

Moderated by Jeff Condran

Six Bridges Book Festival presents Andrew Porter (The Imagined Life). Moderated by Jeff Condran.

Andrew Porter

Andrew Porter is the author of the story collections The Disappeared and The Theory of Light and Matter, as well as the novels In Between Days and The Imagined Life. He has received a Pushcart Prize and the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, and his work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories anthology, Ploughshares, and the Southern Review, and on NPR’s Selected Shorts. He teaches at Trinity University in San Antonio. 

In The Imagined Life, Steve Mills has reached a crossroads. His wife and son have left, and they may not return. Which leaves him determined to find out what happened to his own father, a brilliant, charismatic professor who disappeared in 1984 when Steve was twelve, on a wave of ignominy. Steve drives up the coast of California, seeking out his father’s friends, family members, and former colleagues, and each conversation in the present reveals another layer of his father’s past, another insight into his disappearance. And, with every insight, Steve must confront truths about his own life.

Sponsored by UA Little Rock School of Literary and Performing Arts

ASL interpretation will be provided for all Six Bridges sessions held in CALS Ron Robinson Theater. ASL interpretation for sessions at other CALS locations and Six Bridges venues (including CALS Main Library) will be provided by request. To request ASL interpretation, please submit an ASL Interpretation Request form.

CALS will validate parking in the CALS Library Square surface lot and the CALS Parking Deck. The entrance to the surface lot is located on 2nd Street near River Market Ave. The entrance to the parking deck is located on Rock Street and can be accessed from President Clinton Ave. Street parking is also available throughout the River Market District (free after 6pm and on weekends).