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January 5th, 2010

Andrew Porter: The Last Book I Loved, The Dead Fish Museum

The last book I really truly loved was Charles D’Ambrosio’s second short story collection, The Dead Fish Museum.

I had been looking forward to the release of this book ever since D’Ambrosio’s first collection, The Point, came out in 1995, and even though I had read some of these stories in The New Yorker and The Best American Short Stories in the years prior to its release, I can’t remember ever being so excited to hold a book in my hands. …more

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Andrew Porter is the author of the short story collection, The Theory of Light and Matter, which won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and was recently republished in paperback by Vintage/Knopf. His fiction has appeared in One Story, Epoch, The Pushcart Prize Anthology and on NPR’s “Selected Shorts.” He currently teaches creative writing at Trinity University in San Antonio.

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