joshc's blog

This is the second PSB blog post by Caleb Bollenbacher

It is a love letter to notes, both musical and epistolary.

It is called Can I Read It? (Yes, You Can!)

Marika didn’t think it made sense to try to tell you why this book is brilliant, showing with text and image makes more sense. If you think it’d be fun to communicate this way, well, Making Comics is your crash course!!! 

Vamos! Let’s Go Vote! (Lái lái lái!)

Dear readers of all potential timelines,

This year, instead of publishing one massive exquisite corpse sometime early next year, we’ll be publishing it in chunks as we go along. Think of it as a semi-regular literary journal with contributions from both established authors and new voices.

Click here to read the previous entry.

Here are the entries for July through December.

This year, instead of publishing one massive exquisite corpse sometime early next year, we’ll be publishing it in chunks as we go along. Think of it as a semi-regular literary journal with contributions from both established authors and new voices.

Here are the entries for May-June. (Click here to see March & April)

First, where we left off at the end of April.

You realized you felt alive again.

Do you want to read about journalists boldly fighting corruption and lies in a dystopian nightmare? Cool, we have plenty of newspapers for you!

But okay, maybe you want a little escapism to go with our horrifying reality. Good news: there are journalists in fantasy and science fiction too! Meet some of my favorite fictional journalists.

Abbott - Saladin Ahmed and Sami Kivella

The holidays are upon us and the rush to get the perfect book for everyone on your list is on. If you are ordering something for the holidays please let us know in the comments so we can prioritize your order. Here is more information about inventory statuses and online shopping for the holidays.

After one contest, several meetings, dozens of emails back and forth (including a long discussion about a particular punctuation mark), and consultation with our partners at Grub Street and other community members, we have named our new location at Grub Street, “Porter Square Books: Boston Edition.”

We received 133 suggestions from our community. Here are some of our favorites that didn’t get selected:

Porter Square Books is proud to announce our 2020 Writers in Residence. 

Our Writer in Residence for Adults is Justin Chen and our Writer in Residence for Young Readers is Sacha Lamb.